problems with proportional plots



Am 13.11.2010 06:37, schrieb Mario Rodriguez:
>> Hola Mario!
> Na, wie geht's?
>

Gracias, muy bien. Estamos a la espera del nacimiento de nuestro tercer 
hijo.

> I will not have access to a true Windows system until monday. Running
> wgnuplot in my Linux box with 'wine' (which is a program, nothing else),
> and saving wgnuplot.ini from there, the generated code is:
>
>
> [WGNUPLOT]
> TextOrigin=550 232
> TextSize=568 768
> TextMinimized=0
> TextFont=Terminal,9
> SysColors=0
>
>
> copy this contents into your own wgnuplot.ini and let's see what
> happens.
>
> The Gnuplot manual says:
>
> Update wgnuplot.ini saves the current window locations, window sizes,
> text window font, text window
> font size, graph window font, graph window font size, background color
> and linestyles to the initialization
> file WGNUPLOT.INI.
>
> But, as you can see, no information on window location and sizes was
> saved. I'll try on monday again.
>

I still get an ellipse.

> Let's make another test. Forget Maxima (only for one moment) and open
> your wgnuplot program and repeat these steps:
>
>
> gnuplot>  set parametric
>
> 	dummy variable is t for curves, u/v for surfaces
> gnuplot>  set size ratio -1
> gnuplot>  set xrange [-1:1]
> gnuplot>  set yrange [-1:1]
> gnuplot>  plot [0:2*pi] sin(t),cos(t)
>
>
> You should see a circle, not an ellipse. If the output is an ellipse,
> the problem is definitely somewhere in your local configuration.
>

I get an ellipse. I also (as James Redford) tried the new gnuplot 
version. With this version I get a circle.

Is it possible (with little effort) to make Maxima 5-22.1 use the new 
gnuplot version?

>> Gracias por sus esfuerzos y un saludo
> "sus" is too formal, let's say "tus" ;)

Thank you for the correction. Now my Spanish is better than Google`s :-) .

Liebe Gr??e
Christian