improving axes property behavior for the gnuplot backend

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 16, 2008, at 4:09 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>> I've just realized that "tightinset" is only readable from the  
>> console, and
>> that the interaction of position/outerpostion/tightinset and their
>> dependence upon other axes properties is not yet handled any where  
>> (that I
>> can find).
>>
>> For the gnuplot backend it would be easy enough to handle such  
>> relationships
>> using m-files, but  as this interaction is (and many others are) not
>> specific to the backend implementation, where should this  
>> functionality go?
>>
>> For the moment, I have a m-file that calculates the tightinset.  
>> While I can
>> optionally use that script when get(hax,"tightinset") returns  
>> zeros, such an
>> implementation is not exactly pretty.
>>
>> I''d think it preferable that a backend agnostic solution for such  
>> things be
>> written (another example  is the relationship between papertype,  
>> papersize,
>> and paperposition).
>>
>> In any event, what should be done, and is anyone with the needed  
>> skills
>> interested?
>
> I am interested, but I'm missing time to do it. I just started my  
> new job
> and it'll be *very* time-consuming. Sorry.
>
> Michael.

Well congrats on the new job. I'm on vacation for another 3 days and  
am having fun trying to get as much done with this as possible. So  
I'll spin an m-file solution and hope someone jumps on this at some  
point.

Perhaps a reasonable (but temporary) solution is to make "tightinset"  
writable. Once the low level functionality is in place the offending m- 
file code will make itself quite obvious and can be patched.

If I submitted a changeset for such, would that be acceptable?

Ben