From bug-request at octave dot org Fri Dec  3 07:10:08 2004
Subject: Re: 'text' problems
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Pascal A. Dupuis" <Pascal dot Dupuis at esat dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:10:36 -0500

On  3-Dec-2004, Pascal A. Dupuis <Pascal dot Dupuis at esat dot kuleuven dot ac dot be> wrote:

| This is a followup to my previous message. I tried various scalings
| for the second graph, and I finally got correct results.
| 
| The culprit is to be found in plot/text.m, around line 147:
| atstr = sprintf("%f,%f", position(1),position(2));
| 
| str = sprintf("%f", 1e-9) 
| results in ... 0!
| 
| The following patch seems to work for me:
| 
| ---------------------------------------------------
| --- text.m.orig 2004-12-03 10:08:10.000000000 +0100
| +++ text.m      2004-12-03 10:08:42.000000000 +0100
|  at @ -147,9 +147,9 @@
|      font = "";
|    endif
|    if position(3)!=0,
| -    atstr = sprintf("%f,%f,%f", position(1),position(2),position(3));
| +    atstr = sprintf("%e,%e,%e", position(1),position(2),position(3));
|    else
| -    atstr = sprintf("%f,%f", position(1),position(2));
| +    atstr = sprintf("%e,%e", position(1),position(2));
|    endif
|    command = sprintf('gset label "%s" at %s %s %s %s%s',
|                     str, units, atstr, align, rotate, font);
| ----------------------------------------------------------
| 
| John ?

If you are asking me, this seems fine, but text.m is currently part of
Octave forge so it is not up to me to fix.

jwe



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