Re: [Plplot-general] newbie questions

[Steve F. <st...@ad...>]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2006-09-29 09:54-0400 Steve Friedman wrote:
>
>> - I have a set of graphs produced per experimental run that are 4-up pages
>> (e.g., plssub( 2, 2)) and 1-up pages (e.g., plssub(1,1)) and would like to
>> add a common footer to all pages including such things as a description of
>> the experiment and page number.  Neither plmtex() nor plptex() puts text
>> relative to a page, but only relative to the individual viewport.
>> Likewise, on the 4-up pages, I would like to put a header describing the 4
>> graphs.  Ideally, the header/footer should occur prior to plssub() so the
>> plssub() call can take into account the remaining available space.
>
> You can divide a plot into nxn + 1 rectangular areas (nxn plots + 
> footer) using nxn + 1 calls to plvpor

Is plssub() just a convenience call to plvpor(), or do I need to replicate 
other functionality?

> In my opinion we probably don't need a convenience function for the first
> case, but it might be worthwhile to implement trace legends or date (year,
> month, day), and time (hours, minutes, seconds) axes. However, so far we
> have had no C developers volunteer to do such implementations.
>

I know that feeling.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Steve Friedman