Re: Can't "position" subplot

[Thomas Detman]

Thanks.  It took some effort, but I got Octave 3.2.3 working.
I was very impressed with the plotting improvements, especially the
"interpreter" property for text objects, e.g. "tex".  Also, the
set ... "position" now works, mostly.  HOWEVER:
I got a multipanel plot looking just right on screen, and then used:
print -color -landscape "Cass-t17-Ep103b.ps"
Unfortunately the resulting ps file has some problems:
o The axis positions changed from what I specified and appeared on screen.
o In plot image is seriously shrunken from what Octave 3.0.0 produced; it leaves
a lot of white space around the plot on the printed page.
o So I tried png, gif, and jpg formats - they all failed to print any of the
text objects.
o Also, I had trouble with some tex directives, e.g.:
ylabel ("B_{\phi} (nT)","interpreter","tex");
just didn't work. Did I do something wrong, or miss something.

Any suggestions?

Great progress! But keep going.

John W. Eaton wrote:
> 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