Re: [Gnuplot-info] Trying to avoid onmousemove in SVG output

[Ethan M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to solve a problem that appeared on Stackoverflow:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49083207/can-i-
> create-svg-without-onmousemove
>
> I am working with Gnuplot 5.3, built from current Git sources.
>
> The problem is that SVG output contains onmousemove and onmouseout,
> which the person who posted the question is trying to avoid.
> Apparently the mouse event items are generated when the title of a
> data series is the empty string '', even though no explicit hypertext
> is indicated in the Gnuplot commands.
>
> For example, test1.gnuplot which is just:
>
> set terminal svg dashed enhanced  size 600, 500
> set out 'test1.svg'
> plot 'test.data' index 0 title ''
>
> causes Gnuplot to output onmousemove and onmouseout


Yes. A strange bug (actually 2 separate bugs) triggered by giving an empty
string as a title for a plot in style "points" with the svg terminal.

Fixed now for 5.2 and 5.3

     Ethan






> , while
> test2.gnuplot which is:
>
> set terminal svg dashed enhanced  size 600, 500
> set out 'test2.svg'
> plot 'test.data' index 0 title 'foo'
>
> does not contain onmousemove or onmouseout.
>
> Is there a way to avoid generating onmousemove and onmouseout when
> title '' is specified? It seems superfluous; is it possible that's a
> bug?
>
> I've attached test1.gnuplot and test2.gnuplot, along with the data
> file test.data, and the outputs test1.svg and test2.svg.
>
> Thanks for any light you can shed on this problem, I appreciate your help.
>
> best,
> Robert Dodier
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