Re: 2.9.10, finally?

[Daniel J Sebald]

Bill Denney wrote:
> Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> > John W. Eaton wrote:
> >
> > > But this is terminal dependent, isn't it?  If we use X11 resources as
> > > a way to  control line appearance, it might look great on the screen
> > > but the line style won't show up in a PostScript, PDF, or png file.  I
> > > doubt that users will be happy about that.
> >
> > No doubt on that one.  Consistency between terminals has been 
> > discussed.  There is a lot of reluctance to changing long standing 
> > behavior.  I think the only way to get consistency would be to define 
> > strings like "triangles", "squares", "diamonds", etc.  But even that 
> > idea was lukewarm  because it may be that not all named sybols (line 
> > types) could be supported.
>
> Wouldn't it be simple enough to throw an error saying "triangles are not 
> supported on postscript terminals" or something similar?

It's simple enough, but I don't think gnuplot developers would go for anything 
short of a full implementation for the major terminals, whether that means 
substituting something very close or having to put a little work into creating 
the symbol by hand if need be.

Dan