gnuplot plotting front-end and octave 2.9.18

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  9-Dec-2007, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | Ok, the attached patch address, all of the remarks you made, except this
> | one.
> | 
> | >> * Compare these plots with a grid added in M. and in Octave:
> | >>      x=0:1:10000; y=sin(x); plot(x,y); grid
> | >>      imagesc(1./hilb(18)); grid
> | >>   The former one has the grid below the plot, the latter above.
> | >>   In Octave, both are below.
> | >>   Therefore the image() command should contain
> | >>      reset ... ; set grid front; unset grid
> | >>   so that the "g" hotkey also places the grid above the surface,
> | >>   and the grid() command should also specify
> | >>     set grid front
> | >>
> | > 
> | > I'm not quite sure I under stand this one. Can you offer a patch?
> | > 
> | 
> | and the colorbar comment that I don't think we can do anything about
> | without horrid kludges... I checked the patch against gnuplot 4.0 and
> | 4.2.2 and the only command that causes issues for 4.0 is "set border
> | front" which is limited to the use of gnuplot for images and so is only
> | used with gnuplot 4.2 or later and so shouldn't be an issue.
>
> What about the "set grid front" comment above?  Is the following patch
> OK for gnuplot 4.0?
>
> Thanks,
>
>   

Yes "set grid front" exists in gnuplot 4.0. However, I'm not sure what
Petr is trying to achieve, so I'll let him respond if the patches that
were made are sufficient.

D.


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