Re: a patch for giving limited number of points along a line

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Friday, 18 November, 2016 19:35:22 KH.Moriyama wrote:
> Hi.
> I am a long user of gnuplot but new to this ML.
> I want to inform about my patch. (the attached)

Could I ask you to upload your patch to the tracking page on
SourceForge?

	https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/

I will have a look at it in more detail, but as a first comment
I think that randomizing the point placement is not a good idea.
It makes the points jump around when you replot, zoom, or scroll.
Also the output of a script would not be exactly reproducible.

	Ethan

> 
> It adds a functionality "pointnumber" or "pn", which puts points
> along a line drawn by "linespoints" by given number of points.
> The result is similar to "pointinterval".
> But, it is more convenient because user can directly give
> the number of points appearing along a line without
> knowing the exact number of data points that makes the line.
> 
> The position starting to put points is moved randomly to avoid
> overstruck points.
> A negative number for the point number works as same as
> pointinterval, put spaces in the line at points.
> It returns error in case both "pi" and "pn" are specified.
> 
> I hope it is useful for everyone.
> 
> mori <khm...@gm...>