Re: Cleanup list of patches and bug reports on sf.net

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

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 01:32 pm, Harald Harders wrote:
> > > Well, not exactly nonsense.  For example, say I want to have my x-axis
> > > tic titles at an angle, and I want the end of the words to line up right
> > > below the tic marks.  I think that requires vertical alignment.
> >
> > I did not mean that is was nonsense to have a vertical alignment when
> > using rotated text. But it is surely nonsense if the text is rotated by an
> > angle that leads to an overlap of these lines. Simply try this:
> >   set label "first line\nsecond line" at 0,0 rotated by 85
> > Don't you agree that this behaviour is bad?
>
> Not really. It just means you need more spacing between the lines.
> OK, 85 degrees is a bit extreme.  But 60 degrees works just fine:
>
> 	set label "first line\n\nsecond line" rotate by -60
>
> Or maybe I'll code up a user preference setting for line spacing.
> That is, how much vertical space is implied by an embedded "\n"
> 'set line_spacing <foo>'
> 	term.c (write_multiline):
> 		y += user_prefs.line_spacing * t->v_char
> where right now line_spacing is always 1.0

I think it is also important that the user gets control if he wants
vertical or horizontal aligmnent resp. at which angle the axis switches.

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Harald Harders
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