setting ranges on plot with multiple axis

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Mar-1999, David Larom <address@hidden> wrote:

| I tried the following from a 14-Apr-1998 posting Steven Harp entitled "plot
| with multiple axis" and it works fine:
| 
| gset ytics nomirror
| gset y2tics 
| gplot x, x*x axis x1y2
| 
| Now I modified the above for control of both axes and it works great in
| gnuplot: 
| set ytics nomirror
| set y2tics 
| plot [:][-15:15][:][-10:110] x, x*x axes x1y2
| 
| but not in octave:
| gset ytics nomirror
| gset y2tics 
| gplot [:][-15:15][:][-10:110] x, x*x axes x1y2
| 
| generates the message 
| 
| parse error:
| >>> gplot [:][-15:15][:][-10:110] x, x*x axes x1y2
| 
| Can this be fixed?

Probably, but I really don't have any plans to add more cruft to
Octave's parsing of a gnuplot-like command line.

You can work around the problem by using

  gset x2range [:]
  gset y2range [-10:110]

jwe