Re: Tics, minor tics, labels...

[Robert H. <en...@no...>]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> 	set xtics auto
> 	set xtics include ("Pi" pi 0)
> 	set xtics include ("2Pi" pi*2 0)
>    will auto-generate tics and include specific labels at pi and 2pi.
>    Omitting the keyword retains the current behaviour; each
>    command supersedes the previous ones.
> 
>    Please speak up if you have any objections or counter-proposals.
>    Also please suggest a better name for the keyword if you can think
>    of one.  "add" is the another possibility on the table at the
>    moment.

I suppose the other way of looking at is:

a) Is this a syntax that could consistenly be applied to other commands
should this kind of "addition" behaviour be applicable to them. 

Similar commands are things like "set label", which IIRC behaves in a much
different way - no extra keyword is needed. Of course, using the same sort
of syntax as set label would break any existing scripts that contain
multiple explicit tics statements, which I imagine are relatively
uncommon.

b) Is it actually the "verb" that needs to be changed, as in:
unset xtics
set xtics auto
add xtics ("pi" pi 0)
add xtics ("2pi" 2*pi 0)
show xtics

This is, I guess, more akin to the plot and replot case in the current
syntax. I'm guessing (although I haven't really looked at the code) that
this would be more trouble to implement.

Rob


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