So far, I think the use of ratios for subplot widths/heights has worked
well, with the exception of the default behavior for repeated neighbors
being a bit garbage.
Before, the default was a simple 0.5x of the current row/column:
./scripts/csv.py test.csv -xx \
--subplot="-ya" \
--subplot-right="-yb -W0.5" \
--subplot-right="-yc -W0.5" \
--subplot-right="-yd -W0.5" \
--subplot-right="-ye -W0.5"
And while this is certainly simple, it's behavior is not the most
intuitive. When -ye takes 0.5x, it takes 0.5x of the _whole_ grid,
squishing -ya + -yb + -yc + -yd into the other 0.5x as needed. As a
result, -ya ends up with 0.0625x of the final grid.
You could argue this is confusing behavior, but I worry trying to make
it "smarter" will just make it more confusing when multiple dirs/
nestings are mixed.
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But we can at least change the _default_ behavior to be less confusing.
Now, instead of defaulting to 0.5x, we keep a sum of the number of
subplots seen in the current direction (row vs column), and default the
next subplot's width/height to 1/n.
As a result, repeated subplots end up like the following:
./scripts/csv.py test.csv -xx \
--subplot="-ya" \
--subplot-right="-yb -W0.5" \
--subplot-right="-yc -W0.3333333" \
--subplot-right="-yd -W0.25" \
--subplot-right="-ye -W0.2"
Which may look crazy, but cancels out the nested ratio so the final grid
is a set of evenly distributed columns.
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Maybe this is still too clever and will need to be reverted in the
future, but in the meantime it provides a nice default for the common
use case of repeated subplots.
Christopher Haster
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