Hi Hazen, On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 23:16 +0100, Hazen Babcock wrote: > This sound to me like reinventing the wheel when in > > the simplest case all that is required is the ability to change > position > > and orientation values (3 numbers) that are at present not > accessible > > from the api interface. > > Ok. Do you just want to be able to move the "(x10)" label?
This would do, although I'm quite familiar with requestors receiving what they originally asked for turning around almost instantly and saying that X is great, but could they also now have Y and Z? Still, if we could simply move the "(x10)" label, and possibly change its orientation by 90 degrees, that would be a good step forward. > You could > rescale the data so that plplot thought that no "(x10)" label was > necessary, then add that label yourself in a position and orientation > that you thought was appropriate. This would be possible, but again I'm fearful of (a) detecting when to do this scaling, as opposed to plplot deciding to use fixed rather than floating point and then (b) not introducing funny things, like 15 x 10^4 or such. Our software gets thrown data of all magnitudes from all sources, so we need to be robust. > Or did you want to be able to specify > the position and orientation of all the axis labels? Definitely not; the basic ticks and labelling algorithms of plplot are sound and I wouldn't want to try to reinvent them. I see Alan has added a posting; I'll respond separately to that. Cheers Steve -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Professor Steven J Schwartz Phone: +44-(0)20-7594-7660 Head, Space & Atmospheric Physics Fax: +44-(0)20-7594-7900 The Blackett Laboratory E-mail: s.schwa...@imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London Office: Huxley 711A London SW7 2AZ, U.K. Web: www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~sjs +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
