[Gnuplot-info] logscale and manual range setting?

[Jim K. <je...@kl...>]

I have a plot with several traces one of which dips down ever
so slightly below the starting value but is then increasing.
This causes an entire major tick to be used that is more or
less wasted and in this case it is a large fraction of the plot.

Setting yrange doesn't affect the plot.

Here is a simple example.  Note how more than half of the plot
area is in some sense wasted:

====
set key left box
set samples 50
set logscale y
set xrange [1:10]  # This doesn't make any difference
plot [1:4] (x**2-0.001)
pause -1 "Hit return to continue"
====


One way to get rid of the wastage of plot area would be to set the
start at the first minor tic rather than major tic.

The source code in axis.c looks like this may be a fragile thing to 
touch though.

Comments?

Thanks - Jim