On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:44:33 -0700, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: >
[...] > > Well, good intentions is one thing, wrong behaviour is another? If > > the user has specified "ind:1 deps:(2)", even if org-plot identifies > > column 1 as having labels for the tic marks, the generated parameter > > to the plot command should be, at best: > > > > ... using 1:2:xticlabels(1) ... > > > > I just applied a patch which results in the above plotting command, and > yields the following gnuplot error when the table contains an empty line > > "illegal day of month" > > which to me seems entirely appropriate. It does indeed seem perfectly appropriate! Thanks. > All of the plots form the org-plot page on worg still work with this > patch (which amounts to org-plot's test suite), so I relatively > confident that it shouldn't break any existing functionality. > > One problem with org-plot's attempt to guess the best action in each > situation is that the code will get increasingly ugly as these corner > cases continue to arise, and as that happens it becomes increasingly > difficult to know a-priori if a patch will cause unforeseen problems. Yes, I can imagine. I guess, for Johan's benefit, that it's best to move on to org-babel for the more complex problems leaving the direct gnuplot support for "simple" cases! Thanks again, eric _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
