I'll see your chart and raise you a crazy ggplot2 graph!

Having the option for publication quality charts is a good idea, since
realistically not everyone knows how to use other software. What about a
checkbox that would enable resizing? Then by default the system would work
as it does now, but if you click the box you'd get a resizable border on
the plot and could drag it as you will.


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Sean Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Apr 23, 2013, at 12:11 PM, Chris Hollander wrote:
>
> > Are using chat windows directly from mason really the best idea for
> publications? I would think they're much better off for giving
> demonstrations and exploring the model. If you want to graph information,
> wouldn't you be better off just writing the data you want to a file, and
> then using a "real" plotting system to make the graphs? (Like gnuplot, R
> with ggplot2, or matplotlib/matlab, etc)
>
> Actually, the chart mechanism was specifically developed to make good
> looking charts!  That's why it outputs PDF, provides dashing and width in
> addition to color, and has a white background.  Behold:
>
>
>
>
> So again, I'm cool with changing the default behavior perhaps, but I need
> to know what you want the default behavior to be *exactly*.
>
> Sean
>