Re: square behavior

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Petr Mikulik wrote:

>>I've been using gnuplot quite a bit lately.  It's been working very
>>well, which says a lot about the amount of work put in over the last few
>>years.
>>
>>The only annoying thing right now is the layout for plots when in square
>>mode.  It's easy enough to modify the bounding box in an EPS file, but
>>it sure would be nice if some brave soul could slay that dragon.
>>    
>>
>
>You mean "with image"? I think that the current bounding box calculator does
>not include the colour box.
>

No, I meant the "set size square" problem.  Gnuplot creates a plot that 
is square.  However, the whitespace it leaves is still the same aspect 
ratio as the default.  Hence there is a chunk of whitespace on the right 
side.

A while back I put a patch on SF that balances the white space on both 
sides.  It looks better, but actually--as Ethan pointed out--it's hardly 
an improvement and there is a proper way of correcting it.   (One has to 
modify two borders in the PostScript file, or whatnot, rather than one.)

Dan