[Maxima] aspect ratios

[Raymond Toy]

John Guenther wrote:
>
> I fooled around a bit with different values and bigger values make the 
> y axis units bigger than the x axis but it’s not clear exactly what’s 
> going on so that it is hard to get precise control. For example using 
> 1 or -1 doesn’t seem to give a 1 to 1 ratio as one might expect.
>
> I tried to find documentation for “set size ratio n” but could not 
> find any by searching the manual.
>
> Can anyone explain in detail how this option works? Or tell me where 
> there is some documentation?
>
Since you obviously have gnuplot around somewhere, just start up gnuplot 
itself and type "help set size" and you'll get documentation on what all 
this means.

Ray