Re: Bug in 5.4.rc2

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> writes:

> Sounds like your plot wants to use "with ellipses".

OK, I'm using ellipses now. It does what I want. I just hit a corner
case, however that did a surprising thing. The corner case is this:

  plot '-' notitle with ellipses
  0 0 0 0

I'm plotting an ellipse at the origin with axis lengths 0. The
previously stated purpose was to draw an ellipse with the described
geometry against the graph coordinates, instead of drawing an abstract
symbol, like "with circles" does. Thus here I would expect nothing
drawn, or maybe just a single dot drawn. Instead it draws an ellipse of
some arbitrary size, independent of the zoom level: it's an abstract
symbol.

Proposal: ellipses with axis lengths >= 0 are not abstract symbols, and
are drawn as the data dictates. axis lengths < 0 may be rendered as
symbols.

Reasonable?