Re: [ gnuplot-Patches-992149 ] String variables revisited

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Harald Harders wrote:
>
> > I would prefer one function that does everything.
>
> I don't think that's an option.  Too many of gnuplot's special
> formatting specifier already collide with C printf formats for that to
> work:  %s, %c, %p, %l.

Mmh, you are right here. Nevertheless I think it is more important to
provide the format specifiers the gnuplot users are used to than to
provide C specifiers. If you are able to write "%l \267 10^{%L}" in tic
formats, you also should be able to do this in string variable
definitions.

Yours
Harald

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