On 19-Sep-2007, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
| So I see the change from previous versions that is causing trouble is
| the gnuplot command:
|
| set style line 1 linecolor rgb "#0000ff" linewidth 0.500000 pointsize
| 1.000000;
|
| I haven't followed all the graphics update details, but I assume this
| code is now used as a standard part of the gnuplot pipe for all
| plotting, enabling better line color control, WYSIWYG printing to files,
| and Matlab compatibility. This would be fine if various dashed line
| styles were supported, e.g.
|
| > plot(x,sqrt(x),'-k',x,x,'--k')
|
| Should give a black solid line and a black dashed line. Instead, I get
| two solid lines.
|
| Until this addition feature is coded, I suggest that printing to file
| devices use the default gnuplot line styles that include various solid
| and dashed lines and not override the styles as above. Otherwise it is
| currently not possible to make black and white plots directly from
| Octave (I must save to a file and write gnuplot code).
I think the problem should be fixed in gnuplot.
If it is relatively simple to fix this problem in Octave, I would
consider a patch.