Re: change position of x-axis

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 11, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.
> . How do you edit this files?

It's an ASCII file, so you'll need to use a text editor.

Ben