Re: change position of x-axis

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:42 PM, bpabbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 11, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Vlăduţ Frăţiman wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> I already try'it that but seem to be an bug. My plot show an intrerupted
>>> line and old axis don't disspear.
>>> I use octave 3.2.1 on Ubuntu 11.04. Plots are rendered with gnuplot.
>>> I put an image as attachament to see what i mean.
>>>
>>> <graf.png>
>>>
>>> It works correctly for me. Perhaps we're doing something else differently
>>> that it producing a different result?
>>> The following works for me.
>>> close all
>>> clear all
>>> x = 0:0.1:10;
>>> y = sin(x)./(1+x) + x*01 - .4;
>>> plot (x, y);
>>> set (gca, "xaxislocation", "zero")
>>> print test.png
>>> preview test.png
>>> Does this work for you?
>>> Ben
>>
>> Ben,
>> please add the line
>>
>> set (gca, "box", "off")
>>
>> to see the remainding of the axis. This problem is even in the plot
>> "polar" when the box is switched off.
>
> Indeed,
> I posted this issue it in the help mailing list a few days ago
>
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Axis-issue-td3887910.html
>
>
> This may be a feature of gnuplot.
> If you'd like to experiment with gnuplot to see if the horizontal line at
> the bottom can be suppressed, you can save the gnuplot plotstream by ...
> drawnow ("png", "debug.png", false, "debug.gp")
> Then run gnuplot and type ...
> load "debug.gp"
> Each time you load "debug.gp" the file "debug.png" will be saved. You can
> try modifying the gnuplot commands in gnuplot.gp to get the desired result.
> If you're successful, I should be able to modify Octave's sources to fix
> this.
> Ben
>
>
>

Hi Ben,

Thanks for that. I am doing what you suggested, but I get binary code
or something like that in debug.gp. How do you edit this files?

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