Re: desired features for gp backend?

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Jun-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:

| It is not clear to me what aspect of the rendered figure would be
| changed with preplot / postplot properties or with
| initialize_plotting_engine / cleanup_plotting_engine.
| 
| I suspect pre/post figure commands would have limited use. If such
| were to be implemented, they would be more useful if they were
| applied to the axes.

It's not at all clear to me where they should be inserted then.  And
it also seems that these special commands would be very fragile if
they depend on being inserted in a particular location and later the
implementation of the __go_draw_axes__ function changes.

jwe