From: Johan Ekh <ekh.johan@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Plotting date on xaxis
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:09:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417457b51002260709w61c337bej8ce3a1872cb08a56@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vg9nkih.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
Thanks guys,
I really like the org-mode community. I allways get good help with my
newbie questions!
On Thursday, February 25, 2010, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:44:33 -0700, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>
> [...]
>
>> > Well, good intentions is one thing, wrong behaviour is another? If
>> > the user has specified "ind:1 deps:(2)", even if org-plot identifies
>> > column 1 as having labels for the tic marks, the generated parameter
>> > to the plot command should be, at best:
>> >
>> > ... using 1:2:xticlabels(1) ...
>> >
>>
>> I just applied a patch which results in the above plotting command, and
>> yields the following gnuplot error when the table contains an empty line
>>
>> "illegal day of month"
>>
>> which to me seems entirely appropriate.
>
> It does indeed seem perfectly appropriate! Thanks.
>
>> All of the plots form the org-plot page on worg still work with this
>> patch (which amounts to org-plot's test suite), so I relatively
>> confident that it shouldn't break any existing functionality.
>>
>> One problem with org-plot's attempt to guess the best action in each
>> situation is that the code will get increasingly ugly as these corner
>> cases continue to arise, and as that happens it becomes increasingly
>> difficult to know a-priori if a patch will cause unforeseen problems.
>
> Yes, I can imagine. I guess, for Johan's benefit, that it's best to
> move on to org-babel for the more complex problems leaving the direct
> gnuplot support for "simple" cases!
>
> Thanks again,
> eric
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-22 18:31 Plotting date on xaxis Johan Ekh
2010-02-23 9:52 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-02-23 14:47 ` Eric Schulte
2010-02-23 16:27 ` Johan Ekh
2010-02-23 17:15 ` Dan Davison
2010-02-23 17:33 ` Eric Schulte
2010-02-23 22:52 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-02-24 0:05 ` Eric Schulte
2010-02-24 8:07 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-02-25 17:44 ` Eric Schulte
2010-02-25 20:11 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-02-26 15:09 ` Johan Ekh [this message]
2010-05-15 13:47 ` Ivan Vilata i Balaguer
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