about new plotting options



On 2013-12-17, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:

> gnuplot_preamble cannot be nuked, because wxplot will break.

Agreed.

> the following possibilities: gnuplot_preamble/gnuplot_postamble, or 
> gnuplot_preamble/gnuplot_suffix.
> Can you please vote on any of these two or suggest something else?

I favor gnuplot_postamble, since it makes a regular pair with
gnuplot_preamble. Also, gnuplot_suffix seems to suggest something about
the Gnuplot path (and gnuplot_prefix suggests that even more strongly).

>>   * samexy, samexyz, yxratio, maybe others: can we write these with an
>>     underscore to separate distinct semantic bits, e.g., same_xy,
>>     same_xyz, yx_ratio. Especially for speakers of languages other than
>>     English, it is hard to see where to break the semantic units (but
>>     it's hard enough for native speakers too).
>>
> OK, I agree. How about logx and logy? Do you think they should also 
> become log_x and log_y?

Well, if there are any such symbols already, I think changing them is
more trouble than it's worth, so let's leave them alone. But let's not
introduce any new ones.

best,

Robert Dodier