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

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

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

> 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.

I fully agree there.  Which means we'll need two functions, eventually.
The problem is that %l/%L and similar formats must always be used in
pairs, and the code needs to know which the pairs are: the rounding on the
%l part affects what the right result on %L is.  The number 9.999 can come
out as 9.999*10^0 or 10.0*10^^1.

The two of them could be called gprintf and sprintf or similar.

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