Re: 2.9.10, finally?

[Daniel J Sebald]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  7-Feb-2007, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> | John W. Eaton wrote:
> |
> | > Also, is the mapping of line types (integers) to the actual styles
> | > terminal dependent?
> | 
> | Probably so.  There is a solution, but I don't know if it works well
> | for Octave.  In gnuplot look at the help under x11->line_resources
> | and you'll see that there is a way to control the line dash/dot
> | pattern with the x11 resources file.
>
> 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.

Dan