From bug-request at octave dot org Sun Jan 1 23:15:15 2006 Subject: gnuplot gset From: Kevin Judd To: bug at octave dot org Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 20:36:38 -0600 This not a bug its just misguided. I have used octave instead of matlab since 1999, but beginning 2004 I've been doing other things. Now I am back to science and using octave and find my scripts and functions are producing a lot of silly warnings. The worst of which is the following. warning: gset is deprecated and will be removed from a future warning: version of Octave. warning: You should use the higher-level plot functions warning: ("plot", "mesh", "semilogx", etc.) instead warning: of the low-level plotting commands. warning: If you absolutely must use this function, use the warning: internal version __gnuplot_set__ instead. This is idiotic. Did the person that did this actually use octave/gnuplot? I mean to do serious science requiring publication of figures in journals and books? gnuplot is a powerfully plotting package and gset is the only way into a lot of that power, like positioning legends, controlling tick marks, grids, fonts, etc, etc. (Unless octave now has some other undocumented "high-level" way of doing this.) Change the name of gset if you must (although I cannot imagine why) but not to some stupid mangled name that suggests you'd rather people didn't use octave for serious science. Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------