Re: 5.2-stable regression for log axes still not fixed completely

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 19:11:08 Achim Gratz wrote:
> 
> I've been building gnuplot for Cygwin from the stable branch over the
> weekend in order to get the fix for the log axis regression.  I have the
> grid lines and tics back in my plot, but there is yet another
> regression: 

> The 5.0 branch will put the major tics on integer exponents
> of the base.  

> The 5.2 branch will only do that if the first defined tic
> is located inside the axis range and otherwise uses the lower end of the
> range to start from.  

Yup. Good diagnosis. There is a line of code that does exactly that.
I agree this is probably not what people expect, so that line can go.

> I hope this can still be fixed for 5.2.1 (fingers crossed).

I will make that change.  No promises that another wrinkle will not appear.
Some of the very oldest entries in the project bug tracker
were complaints about the handling of log-scale tic placement.
The revision of log-scale handling in 5.0 allowed us to close them
a mere 25 years later.   But even so it's evidently not yet perfect.

	Ethan


> Regards,
> Achim.
>