Re: Plot placement, revisited

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

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> If you recall, there was a discussion of precisely controlling the size 
> of a plot.  It concerned how labels would take away space from the plot 
> so that the eventual size of the borders was random, or at least not 
> known to the user.  The solution was to set the margins to 0, for which 
> the values specified in "size" matched the borders of the plot. 

Not quite.  You just have to set the margins to value other than the
default, so gnuplot doesn't auto-size them.  It doesn't strictly have to
be zero.

> But there is a similar situation with the key.  When the key is 
> specified as "below", that uses up space, so again "set size X,Y" is no 
> longer the precise size of the borders. 

It is, if you set bmargin to a value large enough to let the key fit
below the graph.

That said, I like the suggestion.  But for now, we're not quite done with
the "with pixels" stuff yet, are we?  I think that should take priority
now.

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