From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jan 22 22:33:21 1997
Subject: Can't open more than one multiplot figure
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Itay Gat <itay at cs dot huji dot ac dot il>
cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:31:54 -0600

On 12-Jan-1997, Itay Gat <itay at cs dot huji dot ac dot il> wrote:

: 	After plotting using 'subplot' you can't open another figure for
: more plots. I'm not sure that this is octave bug - it might as well may be
: a gnuplot bug (or feature) but I'm reporting that anyway.
: 
: Repeat-By:
: ---------
: 
: octave:1> subplot(2,1,1);
: octave:2> plot(sin(0:0.1:4*pi));
: octave:3> figure(2)
: octave:4> 
: gnuplot> set term x11 2 
:              ^
:          line 0: You can't change the terminal in multiplot mode

As long as gnuplot is used for graphics, it would probably take a fair
amount of effort to fix this properly.  Since I plan to rewrite most
of the plotting support for 2.1 anyway, I don't think it is worth
worrying about for now.

A workaround is to call oneplot() before figure():

  octave:1> subplot(2,1,1);
  octave:2> plot(sin(0:0.1:4*pi));
  octave:3> oneplot();
  octave:4> figure(2);

jwe