[changeset for colorbar] Octave graphics bugs and thoughts

[Ben Abbott]

On May 6, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On May 5, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>> It does appear to be a gnuplot issue. Try the commands below ...
>> set term x11 enhanced
>> set xlabel "{/Symbol w} A B C D" font ",14"
>> plot sin(x)
>
> If I issue these commands directly in gnuplot, the result is as  
> expected.  I'll investigate further.

What version of gnuplot are you running? I tried the developers  
sources and got the same result as in Octave.

However, I can switch to 4.2.3, 4.2.4, or 4.2.5 if needed.

>> The colorbar needs more work. There are other examples where it  
>> does  not render properly. I you make another call to colorbar it  
>> should fix  itself ... which indicates that a listener should be  
>> able to fix it. I  looked at this a few weeks ago but didn't find a  
>> proper solution.
>> Perhaps it makes sense to add some additional tests to colorbar  
>> that  illustrate the problem?
>
> Yes, that's good.

Ok, provided there are no objections, I'll add the attached demos.

Ben