Re: Patch to add axis position property

[Daniel J Sebald]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On  9-Aug-2007, Peter Gustafson wrote:
>
> | I see a problem (you may see many problems)... If two simultaneous axes
> | are created with outer position [0 0 1 1], when plots are made to those
> | axes they do not preserve the boundary positions.  Meaning the box in
> | which the plot resides changes slightly depending on the labels etc that
> | surround it.  So although it would be possible to define two full frame
> | axes (one with x1y1, one with x1y2), it would still look bad.  Could
> | this be overcome?  Is this why nobody else has done this yet.
>
> That's a problem with gnuplot, but not necessarily with other plotting
> libraries that we might use to implement the graphics backend.  I see
> the gnuplot backend as a temporary solution, so I don't think it makes
> a lot of sense to invest much more effort to extend it.

It's a fixable problem, I suspect.  If you want, you can force the margins and 
hence the borders to the same.

set xlabel 'test'
set ylabel 'test'
plot x
set bmargin 3
set lmargin 5
replot

Above, the margin can be specified in other coordinate systems, say "screen".  
However, the main idea is that the margins be set the same.

I've always thought of improving the margin behavior.  I guess the nice feature 
would be to be able to tie together the margins of multiple plots.  For 
example, say the plots are one above the other, i.e., 2 x 1.  It might be nice 
to have the auto-margin chosen as the larger of the two margins and be kept the 
same for the two.  Could make a feature request.

Dan

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