about axes properties

[Matthias Brennwald]

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 11:26 -0500, help-octave-request at octave.org wrote:
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> From: Francesco Potorti` <Potorti at isti.cnr.it>
> Subject: about axes properties
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> In the 3.0 manual, I read exactly the same description for both the
> "position" and "outerposition" properties.
> 
> Also, while plotting two graphs in two subplots, I see that I can move
> them around using "outerposition", while changing "position"
> apparently
> has no effect.
> 
> Guessing the right numbers for "outerposition" is a matter of trying.
> Can someone shed some light on these misteries?

My understanding is that the parameter for outerposition is a vector
p(1,2,3,4) with:

p(1) is the x-coordinate of the lower left corner of the plot
p(2) is the y-coordinate of the lower left corner of the plot
p(3) is the width of the plot
p(4) is the height of the plot

All these values are given in relative units, i.e. in fractions of the
width and height of the graph window, where (0/0) is the lower left
corner of the window and (1/1) is the upper right corner.

Does that make sense? If so, something along these lines should propably
be added to the documentation.

Matthias

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