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- From: wmitchel@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Bill Mitchell)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot
- Subject: Re: Plot sizes and square graphs
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 15:08:55 GMT
- Organization: GE Advanced Technology Labs
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- In article <9301061738.AA15375@wildcat.dartmouth.edu>, dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu (David Kotz) writes:
- |>
- |> When making gnuplot 2.0, we debated a lot about whether the set size
- |> command should use relative scaling factors (as it does now) or
- |> absolute size in inches. The problem is that some devices make more
- |> sense with scale factors (like most terminals) and some devices make
- |> more sense with absolute sizes in inches (like most paper-based
- |> devices, including latex, postscript, and all printers). At the time,
- |> we decided (not unanimously) that more people used terminals than
- |> printers, and to go with the scale factors.
- |>
- |> I think we ought to support both forms. Of course, the 'set size'
- |> command cannot be changed now, or we'll break lots of scripts!
- |>
- |> dave
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- How about something like a 'set sizetype' command that takes on values
- 'relative' and 'absolute'?
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- -- Bill
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