Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] no axes for arrow

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pl...@pi... wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:16:47 +0200, Hans-Bernhard Bröker  
> <HBB...@t-...> wrote:

>> No, it only requires actually reading the documentation.  You rather
>> obviously didn't bother with that before posting.

> Aparently I have missed something in the doc that achieves the same  
> result, so instead of just sounding off with an RTFM it would make more  
> sense to at least point me at the right section.

How could you possibly need pointing to "help arrow"?  It's the 
painfully obvious place to look for the information you're after, and 
you say you already found that.  Now all you have to do is actually 
*read* it.  I don't see how the information you're looking for could be 
placed any more prominently inside that section of the docs.  It's just 
two paragraphs below the command syntax specification.

>> The "axes" option only applies to "plot", because it specifies a *pair*
>> of axes for a single object (one dataset in a plot).
>>
> So what is the difference with specifying a *pair* of axes for a single  
> object when its a label or arrow?

An arrow has 4 independent coordinates, each of which can meaningfully 
be placed sing a different coordinate system.  Two of those don't even 
exist for 'plot'.  So we're talking about two different tasks here, 
which rightfully have different command syntax.

> It would seem perfectly logical to implement this in the same way.

Only to people who don't see enough of the whole picture.