Re: minitics patch

[Eddie K. <ko...@CS...>]

First, thanks for responding!!

I wasn't aware of this change!  Abject apologies.  So maybe I'll  
submit a patch that updates the `set mxtics` documentation to mention  
that explicit tic setting is available by `set xtics`.

One portion of the minitics patch isn't obsoleted, as far as I can  
tell.  This is the code that can place minitics automatically when  
tics were placed explicitly.  Here's a demo:


set logscale y
set yrange [1:10000]
set xrange [0:100]
set mytics 10
set ytics ("10^0" 1,"10^1" 10,"10^2" 100,"10^3" 1000,"10^4" 10000)
plot x**2


I find this quite useful (it's nice to not have to place all the  
minitics explicitly).

So what about a patch like this?

- Update `set mxtics` documentation to say that explicit minitic  
placement can be achieved with `set xtics`
- Remove explicit `set mxtics (pos1,pos2,...)` syntax
- Allow syntax such as `set mxtics FREQ {, MAJFREQ {, OFFSET}}`,  
which will place FREQ minitics between every "major tic", where  
"major tics" are defined as occuring at OFFSET + i*MAJFREQ for all i.

Eddie



On Aug 11, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> 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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