Open patches that are useful for me

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

Today, I have had a look to the open patches at sourceforge.net. Some of
them are very useful to me and I ask myself why they are not committed to
cvs, yet. Am I the only person who finds them useful? I would like to
start a discussion about these patches. Why are they not in cvs. Do they
have to be improved before, or do you think they are useless, do they
cause problems?



#616199 Ignore title string after notitle
This patch enables to give a string after 'notitle' in the plot command.
This is useful if you have multiple curves in a plot with different titles
and if you want to remove one of the titles (maybe temporarily). Example:

plot \
  sin(x) title 'sin({/Symbol-Oblique a})', \
  cos(x) title 'cos({/Symbol-Oblique a})', \
  tan(x) title 'tan({/Symbol-Oblique a})'

If you want to omit only the second title, you have to change title to
notitle and remove the string. If you later want to add it again, you have
to have a backup copy of this string somewhere or to type it in again.
With this patch, you simply can change the plot command as follows:

plot \
  sin(x) title 'sin({/Symbol-Oblique a})', \
  cos(x) notitle 'cos({/Symbol-Oblique a})', \
  tan(x) title 'tan({/Symbol-Oblique a})'



#713166 margins changed from int to float
By default, the steps in which you can change the margins are too big in
my opinion. This patch avoids this limitation. It is a very simple patch
that does not cause any compatibility problems.



#835235 minitics updates
This patch enables to use explicit minitics, e.g.,
    set mxtics (1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4)
and to use automatic minitics even when the major tics were explicitly
defined, e.g.,
    set xtics (1, 2, 3, 4)
    set mxtics
Especially the explicit minitics are very useful for logarithmic plots
that have data range over only few decades. I am using this patch since it
was submitted without any problems. If you don't use this new function,
the patch does not change anything.


That's it.
Harald

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