axis manipulations in plots are unnecessarily restrictive

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Jun-2008, pstrang wrote:

| I didn't post the results variable as it is 50MB worth of data.  Simply put,
| results(:,1) is the Julian day plotted against values in results(:,2:13).  I
| could have shortened the data, but then even 1 days worth of data is quite
| large and would be boring to plot against 'days' scale.

Is there no simpler yet complete example that you can come up with
that demonstrates the problem?

| Yes, you're right, the big picture is the axis properties are not all
| implemented.
| 
| xticklabels = xticklabel, pos = position
| units = units (not implemented)
| fontsize = fontsize (not implemented)
| 
| Documentation found here:
| http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/index.html?/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/axes_props.html

Yeah, believe it or not, most people here know where to find the
Matlab docs.  We realize that there are missing properties.  That's
not the problem.  The problem is that there are too many things to do
and not enough time or contributors to do the work.

| Looks like a lot of properties are left to implement.  Is it possible for me
| to help a little? I'm no expert, but am willing to 'attempt' a gnuplot
| mapping for some properties.  It would take a lot of research on my end, but
| perhaps I could contribute a little.

Yes, help is always welcome.  I recommend joining the maintainers list
and submitting patches for what you can there.  It also helps to
discuss large changes before doing much work as people may have useful
comments that can save you some time and effort.

The current development sources have many more properties than the
3.0.x branch in the archive.

Mapping to gnuplot functionality is not really the goal now as there
is work underway to replace that with an OpenGL-based renderer.

jwe