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Re: How can I limit maximum value plotted with cgPlotS? [message #79525] Wed, 07 March 2012 05:30 Go to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001
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Fabien writes:

> I am a big fan of cg routines, but here I must add a word. One of the
> small problem of these routines is that they wrap the original IDL
> routines, and I've seen that for many students learning IDL this is a
> bit confusing: "should I read cgPlot documentation or IDL's plot
> documentation"?
> For this specific post, for example, this is a plotS question, not a
> cgPlotS.
>
> But, I agree, this is a *very* small drawback ;)

Yes, I agree. And if I was getting paid to do this,
I would probably document and define every damn keyword.
(Have I mentioned that I've grown very, very tired,
indeed, of keyword inheritance?) But, spending weeks and weeks
documenting keywords that get used once every 10 years
seems *exactly* like the kind of thing my wife is always
warning me against. :-(

I could probably duplicate a help page of "graphics
keywords", but this would be a re-hash of a page
that already exists. And, Lord knows we don't want to
encourage yet more documentation to go missing from
the "official" documentation. Although maybe I should
at least copy it. Taking it away from us may be the
only thing that will get us to use the "new" graphics!

Cheers,

David



--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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