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

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

Hi.
It is a very late reply to Nov. 19 mail about a patch for "pointnumber".
I modified the patch so that it does not use random number to move
the offset of the first point.
and i uploaded the patch to the Sourceforge patch page.
best regards :-)
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On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 2:54 PM, KH.Moriyama <khm...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
>
>