[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #63681] [feature request] plotyy axes should synchronize number of ticks and zero-crossing (initially)

[Rik]

Update of bug #63681 (project octave):

                Priority:              5 - Normal => 2                      
              Item Group:    Matlab Compatibility => Feature Request        
                 Release:                  8.0.90 => dev                    
                 Summary: plotyy axis limits incorrect => [feature request]
plotyy axes should synchronize number of ticks and zero-crossing (initially)

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I don't think this is a Matlab compatibility issue, as much as it is a feature
request.  For example, Octave and Matlab make different choices about the
xlimits and ylimits for this simple code:


x = 1:10;
y = x - 6;
plot (x,y)


Matlab chooses xlimits of [1, 10] while Octave uses [0, 10].  Matlab chooses
ylimits of [-5, 4] while Octave chooses [-6, 4].  This amounts to a difference
of opinion, rather an incompaptibility between the two programs.  And it is
simple to change the limits and ticks using various functions like ylim(),
yticks(), or directly setting axes properties.

In the case of plotyy, the summary of the function is "Plot two sets of data
with independent y-axes and a common x-axis."  In Octave, the y-axes really
are independent and there is no code requiring that the 0-level on one axes
match the 0-level on the other.

So, I'm changing the Item Group to Feature Request.  It is probably possible
to write some sort of logic that decides on synchronization of number of ticks
and on axes limits.

I'm lowering the Priority because there are easy workarounds.  The two axes
objects are returned from plotyy() and it is simply to set ylim() and yticks()
to achieve any desired synchronization of the two axes.


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