Re: Color and point style in plot.m

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi,
  Well, since the documentation has yet to be written, you can't 
exactly read that. The new plotting system for Octave is still based on 
gnuplot, so it's "only" the Octave interface that has changed. The new 
interface is mostly matlab compatible so you should be able to learn the 
new system by looking into the matlab docs (they are online).
  As to you j-handles questions. Looking at the Octave forge web pages, 
it seems to me that you should be able to at least build j-handles on a 
mac, but I think you are right that it doesn't work (I'm not sure 
though). I don't think there currently are any plans to make j-handles 
the standard plotting system of Octave. It is however very likely that 
the gnuplot system will be replaced sometime after Octave 3.0 has been 
released. I'm guessing that j-handles would be a good candidate for a 
new system, but no decisions have been made.

Søren

Henry F. Mollet skrev:
> Where can I familiarize myself with the new plotting system? Does new
> plotting system mean j-handles and where exactly can I get them. If I
> remember correctly, there was a posting that j-handles don't not yet work on
> a Mac. So far I've been trying by trial and error to find out what will
> still work with gnuplot. It's probably not the best way to proceed but it's
> the only thing I knew how to do.
> Henry
>
>
> on 8/17/07 11:00 AM, Søren Hauberg at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Henry F. Mollet skrev:
> > > > From help plot:
> > >  `NM'
> > >           If NM is a two digit integer and M is an integer in the range
> > >           1 to 6, M is interpreted as the point style.  This is only
> > >           valid in combination with the `@' or `-@' specifiers.
> > >
> > > Is this still valid?
> > I don't think so. While most of the graphics stuff has been rewritten in
> > the last couple of months, the documentation hasn't kept up-to-date.
> > Rewriting the plotting documentation is actually one of the things that
> > needs to be done before Octave 3.0 will be released. So, everybody: this
> > is a great place for you to contribute to Octave. So, if you want to
> > help the Octave development, and don't know where to begin, this is a
> > great place to start. Just make your self familiar with the new plotting
> > system (you'll need to do that anyway at some point, so why not now?),
> > and write dome docs for the system.
> >
> > Søren