Re: Plotting API?

[David Bateman]

Søren Hauberg wrote:

> 3) This isn't API related (sorry), but could histograms drawn by 'hist'
> (or is it 'bar') be drawn with filled boxes? I find the white boxes that
> I currently get are hard to look at. (I often use 'stem' to draw
> histograms, as that is easier to look at).

Not without having the patch primitive we can't have bar and barh
produce filled histograms.

> 
> 4) Most of the plotting functions (except 'plot') doesn't seem to accept
> "property"/"value" style arguments such as "LineWidth", 2. This includes
> the following functions "fplot", "polar", "stem", "stairs", and "mesh".
> Should this be considered a bug, or is it intentional (perhaps a gnuplot
> limitation) ?

I think this is just 'cause no one has implemented it yet..

D.