Re: default tic label format

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

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> While trying the 3.8k.1 version of gnuplot, I noticed that the default
> format for the labels on the axis is "% g".
> This has two (minor) disadvantages, compared to simple "%g" as it was
> in version 3.7:

Note: it's '% g' there, too, as of 3.7 patchlevel 3.0.

> - labels on horizontal axes are not centered nicely (the invisible
>   leading space is included in the centering calculation).
> - labels on the y2 axis (if used) start farther away from the axis
>   than the y1 axis labels do.

But note that both of these affect only *positive* ticks.  To stick
with the y2 axis as the most visibly affected one, the choice we have,
for a symmetric axis range, is one of:

%g:
5
0
-5

% g:
 5
 0
-5

%+g:
+5
+0
-5

Looking at these, I think "% g" indeed looks better than %g or %+g would.

In the end, this really is one of the personal preference issue that
can't be solved by the program itself.  Such personal default adjustments 
is what you have ~/.gnuplot or gnuplot.ini for (depending on your 
platform).

> Obviously, I would suggest changing to "%g" before the release of 4.0.

For the record: I suggest we keep '% g'.


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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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