2.6.3 Multiplot options

The following options are used for multiplotting (placing more than a single plots on a display, or a page). The ‘--reposition’ directive serves as a separator, on the command line, between the options and file names that apply to successive plots.

‘--reposition x y size’

(Floats, defaults 0.0, 0.0, 1.0) Set the `virtual display' within which the next plot will be drawn to be a square of size size, with lower left corner (x,y). Normalized coordinates are used here: (0,0) means the lower left corner of the physical display and (1,1) means the upper right corner of the physical display. The size of the plot within the virtual display may be adjusted with the ‘-h’ and ‘-w’ options, and its position within the virtual display with the ‘-u’ and ‘-w’ options. After a ‘--reposition’ directive, the arguments of those four options will be interpreted in terms of the virtual display, not the physical display.

‘--blankout blankout_fraction’

(Float, default 1.3.) Before each additional plot of a multiplot is drawn, the region of the display that the plot will occupy is cleared. If blankout_fraction=1.3, a region 30% larger in each dimension is cleared. If, for example, blankout_fraction=1.0, the region covered by the plot's plotting box, and no more, is cleared. The default value, 1.3, is appropriate for inset plots. 1.0 would be appropriate for side by side plots.

graph -T tek cannot clear regions, and graph -T hpgl cannot clear them if the environment variables HPGL_VERSION and HPGL_OPAQUE_MODE are set to non-default values (i.e., values other than "2" and "yes", respectively).