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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear all,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks for your first feedbacks. I am
somewhat answering in the body of this message:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 02/04/2021 à 14:49, Antoine
Monmayrant a écrit :<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/04/2021 12:16, CRETE Denis
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">I am also in favour of including this
function in Scilab, with an “improved” name. However, as
far as I know, an inset has very frequently its own pair
of axes, as opposed to a ticks-switching in (only one of)
the axes. Thus, I would not recommend a name with “inset”
and reserve it for a function more closely implementing an
inset.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Zoom is quite appealing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">I was wondering about “non-linear”_something…</span></p>
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<p>Hello Denis,</p>
<p>I'm with you here: this should be included, but the name is not
well matching the features of the function.<br>
Indeed, 'inset' is not at all what 'plot_plot' is offering.<br>
I was also thinking about "non-linear-axis" or something like
that, but I am not sure such a name will improve discoverability
of the function.<br>
But you are right: this is about having non-regular or
non-linear axis.</p>
<p>nonlinear-plot ? non-regular-plot ? All this is not convincing
for me...<br>
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<p>You know, i thought very hard about the plotplots() naming before
finding and choosing this one and first publishing it ;-))<br>
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<p>Indeed, plotplots() is not at all about insets, although an
actually zooming inset plotting separate function could also be
useful (with the zooming box and possibly rays linking it to the
inset).<br>
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<p>plotplots() is <b>not</b> about zooming or non-linear axis
either: it can be used with different and only linear scales,
without mixing log and lin ones.<br>
So why "plotplots"? Typing "plot" in <i>Google Translate</i>
(from english to french), i've got and we still get:</p>
<p><img src="cid:part1.CB7675CD.79BC57E4@free.fr" alt=""
moz-do-not-send="false" width="749" height="353" border="1"></p>
<p>So <b>"plots" is very frequently used with the meanings
"parcels, pieces, patches, particles, shreds"</b>.<br>
To me, this is just the right one, close to what the function
actually addresses: plotting several parcels/pieces/patches of
some given graphics.<br>
This led me to this compact -- and i think talkative and
meaningful -- plotplots() name, that's not (only) a word game.<br>
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Other names i thought about were with "multiscaled", or thinks
like "plot_multiscale". But to me, this could lead to some
confusion with multiple axes covering the same whole graphic, as
documented @
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.1.0/en_US/plot_multiscaled.html">https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.1.0/en_US/plot_multiscaled.html</a>.<br>
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<p>That's (almost) the whole story about this plotplots() name.<br>
Is it more meaningful to you?<br>
<br>
Samuel<br>
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