Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot > #3977

How to reset configurations to their defaults?

Show key headers only | View raw

Hi all,

I have something like the following:

 set multiplot layout 2,2
 # first graph
 set xlabel "foo" font "serif,10"
 set xtics format "%0.2f"
 plot ...
 # second graph
 set xlabel "bar"
 set xtics 0,1,10
 plot ...
 # etc. etc.
 unset multiplot

The problem with this approach is that for example, the second "set xlabel" uses the same font setting as the first one, although I want to use the DEFAULT font instead.

Similarily, the second "set xtics" command uses the same format string as the first one, although I want the second one to use the DEFAULT format string.

Currently I see the following (ugly) solutions for this:

- For all settings always specify all parameters explicitly, i.e. in the example above, add an explicit 'font whatever-the-default-is' respective 'format "whatever-the-defaultis"' to the set commands. You already see that this would require me to know all default values, and it would make the commands stupidly long

- For some settings there is a way to reset them to their default values (e.g. "unset samples" or "set key default"), so that I thought about using the unset command just before the set command, to always start over from the default values. However, this does not work for all settings, e.g. "unset xtics; set xtics" does NOT return all values to their defaults (see https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/2061/ ). Similar issue with "set grid" and other settings, for which I did not find a way to reset them to their default values. So this is also not a generic solution.

- Using "reset" just before calling all the "set" commands would work in general - except in this case where I am in a multiplot context, because the "reset" command will also destroy my multiplot context.

Maybe it's worth mentioning that I am working on a tool which creates gnuplot command files on the fly, based on some database content, user input, stuff like that. So I cannot "fine tune" the resulting gnuplot files by hand, but need a generic way to ensure that each plot (in a multiplot environment) looks exactly as given in the configuration, and does not "inherit" configuration settings from the previous plot.

Any hints/tips/tricks for how to solve this?

Thanks and regards
-stefan-

Back to comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot | Previous | Next — Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

How to reset configurations to their defaults? palme@kapott.org - 2018-06-27 12:01 -0700
  Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? Ethan Merritt <eamerritt@gmail.com> - 2018-06-28 04:36 +0000
  Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? palme@kapott.org - 2018-06-27 22:07 -0700
    Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? palme@kapott.org - 2018-06-27 22:26 -0700
      Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? palme@kapott.org - 2018-06-27 23:01 -0700
        Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? Ethan Merritt <sfeam@users.sf.net> - 2018-06-28 19:32 +0000
          Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? palme@kapott.org - 2018-06-28 13:14 -0700
            Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? palme@kapott.org - 2018-06-28 13:22 -0700
              Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2018-06-29 01:57 +0200
                Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? palme@kapott.org - 2018-06-28 21:32 -0700
                Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? Ethan Merritt <eamerritt@gmail.com> - 2018-06-29 05:37 +0000
                Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? palme@kapott.org - 2018-06-29 00:27 -0700
                Re: How to reset configurations to their defaults? Ethan Merritt <eamerritt@gmail.com> - 2018-06-29 21:04 +0000

csiph-web