Update: when I say that axes and frame don't appear to work, I mean after creating an implicit plot. They work find with a regular plot.
thanks john perry On Sep 4, 9:16 am, john_perry_usm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I think I've found a documentation bug, but perhaps I just don't know > how to read the documentation. Trac #2132 seems to reflect the same > misunderstanding I had and could perhaps be closed either immediately > or after a change in documentation. > > The documentation for show() states that the options include > figsize -- [width, height] (same for square aspect) > This looks for all the world as if P.show(figsize=[200,200]) should > produce a square aspect image of P. On the other hand, > P.show(figsize=(6,6)) *does* show a square aspect image of P. > > (1) Should one read [x,y] throughout the documentation as a list [.,.] > of two elements or as a tuple (.,.) of two elements? If a tuple, then > my bad and perhaps Trac #2132 can be closed. > > (2) How is one to interpret width & height anyway? It clearly does not > mean pixels, which was my assumption (and probably the assumption of > Trac #2132). Does it mean dpi*width, dpi*height? (A guess from > experimentation.) > > (3) From the API documentation, aspect_ratio is also a valid > parameter, but this does not apepar when typing show(). Neither do > some other parameters, which appear useful. Some of them don't appear > to work however: frame and axes come to mind. > > thanks > john perry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
