Can't "position" subplot

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Dec-2009, Thomas Detman wrote:

| I've been using subplot to "stack" multiple time-series plots in one figure, 
but 
| I am not satisfied with the default behavior. The documentation seems to 
imply 
| that the following should work:
|    ax = gca ()
|    set (ax, "position", [X0,Y0,deltaX,deltaY])  #  with [X0,Y0,deltaX,deltaY] 
| previously defined.  See 15.2.2.3 Axes Properties.  However, this makes no 
| visible change to the plot.  On the other hand it does change the output of:
|    get (ax, "position")
| It says it did what I asked; but it didn't.  It's either delusional or 
passive 
| resistant ;), or I'm missing something.
| 
| Specifically, I want to make both the right and left ends of the axes in two 
or 
| more subplots vertically aligned; I want to reduce or eliminate the vertical 
gap 
| between subplots (suppressing the tick labels on all but the bottom subplot).
| 
| Environment:
|    GNU Octave, version 3.0.0
|    Ubuntu 8.04
|    octave:2> gnuplot_binary ()
|    ans = gnuplot

It seems to work correctly for me with the current stable version of
Octave, 3.2.3.  I recommend upgrading.

jwe