grid minor

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Rob Mahurin wrote:

> On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Monday, June 22, 2009, at 02:19AM, "Laurent Tissier" <libr.tissier at wanadoo.fr 
>> > wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I am working with octave 3.2 and gnuplot 4.2.5 on ubuntu 9.04_  
>>> amd64.
>>> In the same time i can also test my scripts with octave  
>>> 3.0.1 ,native
>>> version on ubuntu 9.04.
>>> The command "grid minor" give the result "minor = 1" with the both
>>> versions but doesn't work on the plot with octave3.2.
>>> Other question with "grid minor" instruction: on semilog plotting  
>>> i want
>>> obtain 9 intervals between 2 consecutives ticks, always i get only  
>>> 5 ones.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>
>> Just to be clear, is the behavior below what your referrring to?
>>
>> octave:1> plot(1:100)
>> octave:2> grid minor
>> minor_on =  1
>>
>> To what do you refer by "i get only 5 ones"?
>>
>> Can you give us a simple example using a few command so that we may  
>> see the problem?
>
> Here's one:
>
> 	close(gcf)
> 	set(gca,"ylim",[.1  
> 100],"yminortick","on","yscale","log","yminorgrid","on")
>
> Each decade has five minor ticks (e.g. at 2:2:10) instead of nine  
> (at 2:1:10).
>
> Also "grid minor" seems to toggle the "?minorgrid" properties but  
> not the "?minortick" properties.  Since default plots don't have  
> minor ticks, "grid minor" appears to do nothing.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob

I've pushed a changeset that I believe addresses each of the problems  
mentioned.

	http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/6a035159ba0e

Jaroslav, this should be transplanted into 3.2 as well.

Ben