[Pgfplots-features] Suggestions and Questions

[Johannes R. <jre...@is...>]

Hi everybody,

first of all: Thank you for this great package. I use it extensively
and it produces very good results. I am really happy with it.

I wanted to report back some suggestions, questions and observations I
made while using it:

-When working with markers on the plots, the nomenclature is
inconsistent. There is 'mark size', 'mark=*' and 'only marks', but 'no
markers'.

-I created several cycle lists to be consistent in different types of
plots. For example I have a cycle list with markers and no lines for
raw data points and a cycle list with only lines in corresponding
color. Now if I want to have raw data points and fits in one axis, I
cannot use these. Ok, I could make a cyclelist where raw data and
fit styles take turns, but this would break down when I have more
than one fit for a set of raw data. This is probably something that has
to go into pgf, but would it be possible to add a easy way to switch
to a different cycle list between two addplots, and to navigate in it
(go to a specific position in the cycle list, go n steps back/forth)?

-When I first tried to combine plots with only symbols and plots with
only a line in one plot, I had difficulties to figure out how to do
it. Having worked with pgf before, I intuitively tried to activate no
marks/only marks for the whole axis and then override it explicitly for
some plots, by adding [only marks/no marks] to addplot.

-I would find it convenient, if there was a key to indicate legend
placement, for example 'legend position=south west' as shorthand for
'legend style={at={(0.05,0.05)},anchor=south west}' or something
similar.

-Is there a way to do an inset (i.e. smaller axis inside of axis) with
pgfplots? I have some plots with a lot of empty space and I want to put
another, smaller axis  with e.g. a zoomed part there. I tried it with
the extra description key, but it did not work.

Again thanks for this great package.

Greetings

Johannes Reinhardt

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