Octave: resize figure with subplots
<p>I have a simple question about subplots.
If I write:</p>

<pre><code>x=linspace(0,50,4);
subplot(1,2,1);
plot(x,x.^2);
subplot(1,2,2);
plot(x,x.^4);
</code></pre>

<p>I get two very tall and narrow plots in a quadratic window.
How to change the size of the window that I have two plots of quadratic size
in a rectangular window whose height is half the width?
I know how to resize the subplots in the figure window to quadratic plots, but then above them is half the figure empty, and I don't want this.</p>

<p>I asked this also on help@octave.org, but didn't get an answer till now.</p>