Re: [Gnuplot-info] logscale and manual range setting?

[Marek W. G. <gu...@if...>]

Jim Kleckner wrote:
> 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?
> 
How about
plot [1:4] [1:20] (x**2-0.001)

?  No more waste?

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