Re: White space balance has changed

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 06/08/2016 03:20 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Wednesday, 08 June, 2016 15:05:16 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>> On 06/08/2016 01:39 PM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>
>>>> piecewise.dem (1) Piecewise function sampling
>>>> matrix_index.dem (1) Data file contains labeled ascii matrices
>>>> [annotation off screen]
>>>
>>> These demos did not exist prior to version 5, so I'm not sure what
>>> you are comparing to.  The output looks normal when tested here.
>>
>> I'm seeing the y-axis text right up against the screen edge, and on the
>> right side is three characters of white space.  But, I see that margins
>> are specified in this example.  Note, however, that I'm seeing an error
>> message for the "set multiplot" line:
>>
>> gnuplot> load 'matrix_index.dem'
>>            "matrix_index.dem", line 29: warning: must give margins and
>> spacing, continue with spacing of 0.05
>> Hit return to continue
>
> That warning seems unnecessarily alarming.
> All it means is that in the absence of an explicit spacing keyword
> it will use the default value.

I agree.  gnuplot does defaults all the time.  I would say though the 
default is kind of small and I'd prefer it to be in characters because 
that is what "set tmargin", etc. uses.  Screen is good for fine-tuning, 
but something near whole numbers, rather than .05, is a better place to 
start.


>> If I just remove the "margins etc" option, the warning disappears and
>> the spacing looks good, very balanced.  Should we just remove the
>> margins?  Or keep them in as a way of testing the option?  Here's what
>> looks good for me:
>
> [shrug] Tastes differ.
> I think it looks better with identical left and right margins.
> To me the default looks lopsided.

That's because it is, now that I look at.  The top two plots have titles 
so they are smaller than the bottom two plots.  Setting the margins must 
fix the axes locations rather than the overall space.  Option

margins char 5,3,2,4 spacing char 6,3

looks much better than the current setting though.

Dan