Re: Turn auto-ticks on automatically for zoom mode?

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

On Friday, 14 April, 2017 12:26:34 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 04/11/2017 12:00 AM, pl...@pi... wrote:
> >>  Zooming is a
> >> random thing, so there's no way the person who places the manual ticks
> >> can anticipate what adequate annotation might be.
> >
> > The zoom is random but presumably the ticks have some systematic basis.
> >
> > What is kind of situation where manual ticks are needed?  Is the
> > solution to this to be able to supply some kind of  non-auto rule for
> > tick placement?
> 
> Very general.  The application just wants to have the ticks placed 
> according to its rules, I guess.
> 
> What I meant by random is not the tick placement, but the box that the 
> user selects to zoom into.  There's no way for whomever manually places 
> the ticks to anticipate, say, more denser ticks in an area the viewer 
> might look at more closely, i.e., zooming is really something only 
> gnuplot controls.  So if the rule is to go to auto-placement in zoom 
> mode, and back to manual placement when leaving zoom mode it might be 
> just fine.

Did you try the earlier suggestion to use the "add" keyword when
specifying tics manually?    That really should do pretty much 
what you are asking for already, and if not then perhaps you can
suggest a way to improve it.


	Ethan