Re: set border polar with 5.2 RC1

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday, 17 June 2017 09:09:21 sfeam via gnuplot-beta wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 June 2017 17:31:34 Christoph Bersch wrote:
> >
> > In general, if I have a polar plot with autoscaled radius I would expect 
> > the complete circle of radius <autoscaled r> to fit completely in the 
> > canvas.
> 
> The autoscaled maximum on r does fit within the canvas.
> The problem comes because of the gnuplot default policy to
> extend the axis range to the next major tic mark.
> The plot comes out as you would have expected if you first say
> "set auto noextend"  or  "set rrange [] noextend".
> 
> Exactly the same thing can happen with Cartesian coordinate plots.
> The only reason you don't notice is that usually enough space is 
> reserved in the margins for axis labels etc that the "too large"
> border is still on the screen.
> 
> For example:

Bleah. Never mind the example.
Sent before morning coffee and it makes no sense at all.

	sorry 

		Ethan

> 
>    set margin .01,.01, .99, .99
>    unset xtics
>    unset ytics
>    plot '-'
> input data ('e' ends) > 0 .99
> input data ('e' ends) > .99 0
> input data ('e' ends) > 0 -.99
> input data ('e' ends) > -.99 0
> input data ('e' ends) > e
> 
> 
> > This seems to me like "natural" behavior and would probably also work 
> > better together with positioning of the polar border.
> 
> Maybe the R axis should default to "noextend"?
> 
> 	Ethan
> 
>  
> > Best,
> > Christoph
> 
> 
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