Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Janis Papanagnou Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: [meta] Re: Xtics offset Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 14:03:41 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 78ZYNjsY3EY+237/nRd16Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:3031 On 16.08.2015 01:57, Karl-Friedrich Ratzsch wrote: > Am 16.08.2015 um 01:22 schrieb Janis Papanagnou: >> On 16.08.2015 01:11, Karl-Friedrich Ratzsch wrote: > >>> That is a bug, i see the same with gnuplot 5.01. >> >> Wow! - Now, you know, I use gnuplot maybe once every other year (or so), and >> stumbled already on the *second* [IMO severe] bug. - At least that is news I >> can work with; until now I thought I've done something wrong. - Thanks again! >> Your post saved me a lot time I would otherwise have uselessly spent. > > Welcome to the world of open source software: Bug get fixed as users > report them. > > Sadly, most people don't do that. Since first you mentioned that it's a bug, how should I file a bug in the first place; how could I see that the behaviour of gnuplot wasn't correct? Usually I first have to assume that I missed some point. And the gnuplot documentation is far from having specification qualities to be able to distinguish bugs from intentional designed behaviour. YMMV. From my perspective; I didn't knew what the actual problem was, so I posted. > Like you: The program clearly > behaved illogically (y logscale influenced xtics x offset), but you > didn't tell about it at first. Unfortunately I didn't knew that at that time. > That wastes not only your time but also mine. My apologies. But I really couldn't see that an "illogical behaviour" gnuplot-bug was the reason. My working thesis was that I missed something, despite having read the docs and tried a lot in a trial and error fashion. And since I assumed folks here are experienced, they can quickly point me to the error I made. Usually it's good to focus on the specific observable issue; if one makes a bulky post that's usually also not what people like reading. > And that's why Hans-Bernhard was a bit unfriendly: He > could smell you were trying to waste his'. ;-) I still don't think his behaviour was, though not untypical in Usenet and Web-Fora, appropriate. Moreover, posts like the one from HBP wastes everyones time, IMO; since he did not provide any concrete information, but rather only spit out that unfriendly, vague, off-topic, bla-bla. In case I would have missed something in the docs a simple chapter reference would certainly have helped. Thanks for reading. Janis > > Nevermind. > > Karl >