Re: square behavior

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 10 January 2005 10:38 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> 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.

I would claim that is the correct thing for it to do.

The size of the "page" should be set at the terminal level.
The size and aspect ratio of the "plot" should be set by
the core command "set size".   This is how it works for
multiplot, right?

If you change things so that "set size" affects the whole
page size, then won't it totally break multiplot?

If you want a square plot on a square page, then you need to do
something like:

	set term png size 500,500
	set size square

For the png driver there is the additional option of using

	set term png crop
	set size square

which may be closer to what you are looking for.


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