Re: minitics patch

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

On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:37 pm, Eddie Kohler wrote:
> 
> Over three years ago Harald Harders and I submitted a patch that  
> supports explicit minitics, as well as minitics when tics are  
> supplied explicitly.

I guess I am confused about the history of this proposal.
I was under the impression that the original idea was to allow
user placement of tics at various levels (major/minor/...), and
that this feature had in fact been accepted into the cvs version
in Dec 2003 and became part of the version 4.0 release.

What additional feature is offered by the present patch?
I just downloaded and looked at it, but the only description I
see is 2 short paragraphs in gnuplot.doc   And frankly, I do
not understand from that description what it allows that is not
already possible using a command like:

 set xtics ("Major" 1.0 1, "Minor" 1.5 2, \
            "Major" 2.0 1, "Minor" 2.5 2)

Does it allow additional tic levels?
Does it actually use the label strings that the current command
accepts but then apparently ignores?

So it may well be a "cool project", but at least to me it is
not obvious what it does.  Could you provide an updated
sales pitch?

	thanks






> It's simple and adds obviously missing   
> functionality in what seems a pretty sensible way.  It was not  
> applied because the whole subsystem should be redone, or some such  
> reason, I don't remember exactly what.  Of course the subsystem has  
> not been redone and three years have passed.
> 
> It's frustrating to try to contribute to a cool project and get  
> neither traction nor feedback.  Could someone just go ahead and apply  
> a version of sourceforge patch #1104018 (the current version of  
> #594815/#835235), or tell us how improve the patch?
> 
> Thanks very much, and sorry for the frustration.
> Eddie Kohler
> UCLA
> 

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