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

[KH.Moriyama <khm...@gm...>]

Hi, Ethan,

Thanks for reply.

> Could I ask you to upload your patch to the tracking page on
> SourceForge?
>
>         https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/

Sorry, I do not know how to upload a file there. But, you can
use the attached patch in anyway at your convenience.
I attach a modified patch to this mail for fix of the error message
in case of conflict with pointinterval, and the description
about "set ..." that was actually not correct.

> 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.

Yes. I agree about that problem.
Maybe a better way is to add another parameter to set the
offset of the starting points or automatically change
the location of starting points according to the number of lines
plotted simultaneously. It seemed a little complicated.
The present way with the random number was simpler and so far
(for many years) I and some of my friends did not
have practical inconvenience.

mori