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[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#492070: octave3.0: about axes properties in the manual



Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> package octave3.0
> tags 492070 upstream
> stop
> 
> Dear Octave maintainers,
> 
> The bug report reproduced below has been filed against the Debian 
> package and regards the upstream sources.  The report is recorded at
> http://bugs.debian.org/492070
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Version: 1:3.0.1-4
> Severity: minor
> 
> About the Axes Properties page of the manual: I read exactly the same
> description for both the "position" and "outerposition" properties.
> 

Effectively. The difference is the Position is the dimensions of the
plot window itself and OuterPosition is the same including the axes
labels, tics, etc.. I attach a changeset with a minor clarification of
this..

D.
# HG changeset patch
# User David Bateman <dbateman@free.fr>
# Date 1217117335 -7200
# Node ID adea06aa57c9c9e65ea87deb9c20f3550b86975c
# Parent  757660b40561d45486b7fe53e94795c7e6ee1979
Calrify OuterPosition property in manual

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2008-07-27  David Bateman  <dbateman@fre
 2008-07-27  David Bateman  <dbateman@free.fr>
 
+	* interpreter/plot.txi: Clarify the description of OuterPosition
+	axes property.
+	
 	* control.txi, finance.txi, quaternion.txi: Delete.
 	* octave.texi: Remove all references to the above.
 	* Makefile.in: ditto.
diff --git a/doc/interpreter/plot.txi b/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
+++ b/doc/interpreter/plot.txi
@@ -750,10 +750,10 @@ May be one of
 
 @item outerposition
 A four-element vector specifying the coordinates of the lower left
-corner and width and height of the plot, in normalized units.  For
-example, @code{[0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5]} sets the lower left corner of the
-axes at @math{(0.2, 0.3)} and the width and height to be 0.4 and 0.5
-respectively.
+corner and width and height of the plot, in normalized units including
+the tics, labels etc.  For example, @code{[0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5]} sets the
+lower left corner of the axes at @math{(0.2, 0.3)} and the width and
+height to be 0.4 and 0.5 respectively.
 @end table
 
 @node Line Properties

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