bring back gset

Ben Abbott bpabbott at mac.com
Mon Nov 17 16:31:26 CST 2008


On Nov 17, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Ethan Tira-Thompson wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions and workarounds!  Sorry if I sounded
> combative btw, I'm a big fan of Octave — you have already done so much
> with it, I would just hate to see the community limit itself to
> replicating Matlab's features and nothing more since there's a lot of
> potential here...
>
>> However, it is very likely that the Matlab approach will provide you
>> with the flexibility you need, just in a different way. If you can
>> explain what you're looking for we may be able to help.
>
> Well, for what it's worth, this is the item I'm trying to replicate:
> 	set term aqua "Deflection vs Phase" size 216 144 font "Times,7"
> In particular, the size and font specification.  This is important so
> it integrates into my documents.
>
> The rest of my configuration I think I can probably figure out how to
> control matlab-style within Octave, or at least isn't critical to get
> exactly the same:
> 	set border lw .25 lt 0
> 	set xtics textcolor rgb "black"
> 	set ytics textcolor rgb "black"
> 	unset xzeroaxis
>
> 	set xlabel "Phase" offset 0,.5
> 	set ylabel "Deflection (radians)" offset 1.25,0
> 	set key inside left top
>
> Thanks,
>   -Ethan

Ok, Octave will soon be able to handle that for you.

I'm late heading for the airport, so I apologize for not giving more  
info right now.

Ben


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