Hi Ingrid, hi Bjoern,
When the diagram is resized now by the user afterwards. How should the low level shapes that were created by script now be replaced and resized? You might want to strech a bar but you might don't want your symmetric symbol be stretched. Low level shapes don't know anything about coordinate systems. So with this simlpe approach the diagram would look like rubbish after the first resize.

I do not get the point. I just wanted to test this:
- started R
- created a large vector object 'y'
- draw a histogram: 'hist(y)'
- resized => everything looks perfect
- load package MASS, run truehist(y), resize => everything is OK

Shapes are resized perfectly.

I downloaded this R script (http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/sources/source_65.R) and run it, resized it; it's OK. When it is very small, it does not look as good, but it is perfect for any decent size. And it is very complex. I really do not get the point.

Could you please give a more detailed description, in wich situation, the resize would be catastrophic?


> You have no titles, no legend
That were another 10 lines of code for quite some extensive annotations (including arrows, see the example in the Asymptote pdf help file, pp72-75). Changing triangle for circle (not in the example, but I tested it) would be done by: replacing one guide with "guide c2=(0,0)--(1,2)--(2,0)--cycle;". It's that simple.

Titles & Legend:
box(Label("$A$",z1));
box(Label("$B$",z2));
pair z=(0,-2);
real m=3;
margin BigMargin=Margin(0,m*dot(unit(z1-z),unit(z0-z)));
draw(Label("$A\cap B$",0),conj(z)--z0,Arrow,BigMargin);
draw(Label("$A\cup B$",0),z--z0,Arrow,BigMargin);
draw(z--z1,Arrow,Margin(0,m));
draw(z--z2,Arrow,Margin(0,m));
shipout(bbox(0.25cm));
For a very complex chart, see the R script above. (it has less than 50 lines and I do not beleive, we will have it anytime soon in Chart, but you find such charts very commonly in the financial markets)


> If the script is only used for initial creation, you can never allow a data update when the user has already changed something.

1. There is some truth in it, but again, because these scripts are so customizable, you could do almost everything regarding the chart inside the script, so when changing the original data, you only have to rerun the script. 2. I will have a brainstorming session on this issue: this seems not difficult to solve for simple changes (like some caption has changed, or some point data has changed); it will be difficult though if a whole data series has changed

Many thanks for your patients,

Leonard Mada

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