Re: Tics, minor tics, labels...

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

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> Two questions:
> 
> 1) The documentation says you can assign labels to minor tics
>       set xtics ("Major" x1 0, "Minor" x2 1, ...)
>    but the code explicitly ignores minor tic labels.  Was there any
>    reason why?  You can always give an empty string if you don't
>    want a label there. I propose that if the user specifies a label,
>    we should print it.

Might as well.  Why limit flexibility?  And it may be easier to have it than to disallow it.

> 2) I am inclined to apply the patchset currently listed as #1104018,
>    having worked with the original proposer, Eddie Kohler, to pare it
>    down to a very simple modification to the existing code.
>    In a nutshell, it now adds a keyword "include" to the 'set <xyz>tics'
>    command. In the presense of this keyword, the command does
>    not clear the existing list of user-specified tics (if any).
>    So
> 	set xtics auto
> 	set xtics include ("Pi" pi 0)
> 	set xtics include ("2Pi" pi*2 0)
>
>    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.

"with" ?  e.g.,

set xtics with ("Pi" pi 0)

Dan