Thanks guys, I really like the org-mode community. I allways get good help with my newbie questions!
On Thursday, February 25, 2010, Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > 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
