Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] a bug and sugggestion

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Mike L. wrote:

> Gentlemen, following your help instuctions exactly for multiplot, the
> following occurs:
> 
> > help
> gnuplot> set size 0.7,0.7
> gnuplot> set origin 0.1,0.1
> gnuplot> set multiplot
> multiplot> set size 0.4,0.4
> multiplot> set origin 0.1,0,1
>                          ^
>          ';' expected        
> SOMETHING IS WRONG!

Yes.  Two things, actually.  1st of all, there's an actual error in your
command line (a ',' where you wanted to type a '.').  Second, the '^'
character of the error is misaligned, so it points at the wrong ','.

> The tracer (x,y values shown in lower left) could be easily modified to
> add a wonderful feature! If there were some way to set the y value to
> zero, with the cursor at the x intercept, then gnuplot would
> automatically find the roots of equations! 

[Please keep separate issues in separate mails, and hit <return> every
once in a while --- that entire paragraph arrived here as a single long
line.]

That has nothing to do with the "tracer", because the position it reports
is that of the mouse only.  It has nothing to do with the function(s)
plotted --- for many kinds of graphs made by gnuplot, that would be a
meaningless concept.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.