Re: [Plplot-devel] Revamping plmeta format

2015-02-28 Thread Jim Dishaw
I am working on #3 but took a detour when I had to shift to my laptop due to travel. I couldn't get a successful build on my laptop, so I was working on Mac OS X build problems. I'm back at my primary development machine, so I will finish up on #3. I'm very close. The plots render but they

Re: [Plplot-devel] Revamping plmeta format

2015-02-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-02-20 13:13-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2015-02-20 14:32-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: I've gone through the coordinate transformation and where/how it is applied in the library. The coordinates that are stored in the plot buffer can be best described as device virtual pixels and the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Revamping plmeta format

2015-02-21 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Hi Jim I fully agree that the plplot coordinate system is rather a mess. There are talks of units of mm in various places device coordinates, which as you have implied are not really device coordinates because the drivers report larger values to give good resolution. We discussed this a month or

Re: [Plplot-devel] Revamping plmeta format

2015-02-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-02-20 14:32-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: I've gone through the coordinate transformation and where/how it is applied in the library. The coordinates that are stored in the plot buffer can be best described as device virtual pixels and the definition is not necessarily consistent across

Re: [Plplot-devel] Revamping plmeta format

2015-02-20 Thread Jim Dishaw
On Feb 20, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2015-02-20 14:32-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: Hi Jim: I have read and re-read Solutions 1 and 2 and I don't see any difference between how you have presented them. Did you mean to say something else for one of

[Plplot-devel] Revamping plmeta format

2015-02-20 Thread Jim Dishaw
I've gone through the coordinate transformation and where/how it is applied in the library. The coordinates that are stored in the plot buffer can be best described as device virtual pixels and the definition is not necessarily consistent across all the devices. I don't think that is a show