Re: Cannot set line type of object border

[Juhász P. <pet...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 19:50 +0800, Liu Guibin wrote:
> Terminal has been set "dash" option.
> 
> set object polygon from 0,0 to 1,0 to 1.5, sqrt(3)/2 to 0.5,sqrt(3)/2 to
> 0,0 border lt 3
> 
> The above statement doesn't work properly: the border of the polygon is
> only set to blue color but is still solid, I need it to be set dashed!
> 
> Is this a bug?
> 

Not really, it's an inconsistency at best. 

The documentation for 'set style fill' states that the 'border' keyword
allows a colorspec, not a linespec, meaning that you can only set of the
border, but not its linetype (even though a few paragraphs later the
documentation alludes to this).

On the other hand, objects with dashed borders should be possible.

I'll fix this as part of the ongoing effort to get dash patterns sorted
out.

Peter Juhasz