Re: gnuplot graphics toolkit bugs

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 06/23/2015 05:33 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA
> > To: Daniel J Sebald  Maintainers List Octave
> > Cc:
> > Date: 2015/6/23, Tue 18:06
> > Subject: Re: gnuplot graphics toolkit bugs
> (For previous writing see:
> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/gnuplot-graphics-toolkit-bugs-td4671157.html)
>
> >
>
>
> NOTES for gnuplot ver. 5
>
> The dot/dash pattern of a line can now be controlled independently from other line 
> properties using the keyword "dashtype".
> terminal option dasded is deprecate on Ver. 5.
> I have a quick look at _gnuplot_drawnow_.m of octave ver. 4.0.0.
> There exist "has_termoption_dashed".
> This does not have mean on gnuplot 5.0.
> If one want support dash and dotted type on gnuplot ver. 5, the routine should 
> be changed entirely.
>
> Currently it is practical state that current octave have not support gnuplot 
> ver.5 yet and
> use gnuplot 4.6 (4.6.6 or 4.6.7 are the best).

I've been using gnuplot 5+ development and things seem to work fine from 
what I can tell, given the changesets in the bug reports are applied.

Dan