Re: Plot placement, revisited

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

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> Since on the subject of plot/key placement.  I notice there is a bit of 
> code for making the plot grid avoid the key box so that the lines don't 
> interfere with what is in the key.  That is good.  However, notice that 
> the same isn't done for the plot curves.  Those will write in the same 
> space as the key.  I wonder if the plot lines as well should not 
> interfere with the key.

I've discussed this with users occasionally, and came to the opinion that
the data are more important than the key ---- in a scientific plotting
program, data is king, all else is secondary.  I.e. if the key falls right
in the middle of a data set, it's the key that should yield, not the data.

As to actively blanking out the key box area --- that's going to be
trickier than you think.  IIRC the key is output intermixed with the data,
so there is currently not point during the execution of a multi-dataset
'plot' command at which all data is drawn, but none of the key.

Splitting that up would be another rather major reorganization.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.