Thanks Jeremy, that sounds perfect!  Will this be in a new version of
Veusz?  I'm using the current version, 1.16.

Again, Veusz is awesome, and very helpful in my workflow.

Steve

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Jeremy Sanders
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/07/12 14:11, Steve Richardson wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm trying to make step plots with error bars.  Everything seems to be
>> working well, except that I need to format the plot line to have
>> Steps=right, because that's how my data is formatted.  When I choose
>> this option, the steps are updated correctly, but the error bars are
>> still drawn at the original points.  If I choose Steps=center, then
>> the plot looks correct, with the error bars plotted at the center of
>> the step.  I've attached a veusz file and plot showing this.
>>
>> I know that I can create a new dataset with shifted x values, so that
>> I can use Steps=center.  I'd rather not have to do that, though, since
>> I have quite a lot of data to plot.  Does anyone know of a better way
>> to create this plot?  Or perhaps the error bar plotting function
>> should be updated to check the value of the Steps formatting
>> parameter?
>
> I've added left-shift-points and right-shift-points options to the line
> step settings. This draws the stepped line like left and right, but
> shifts the points to the centre (in page coordinates) half way between
> the real point position and the next (or last). It's a bit ambiguous
> what to do with the end point, so I leave that where it is.
>
> Jeremy

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