#1476 Arrow shaft appears inside empty heads

[Christoph Bersch]

With the recent change of separating the drawing of arrow heads from the arrow shafts another problem appears:

For empty arrow heads now the information is missing, by how much the arrow shafts must be shortened so that they don't appear inside them. The same problem arises with the noborder arrow heads:

set arrow from -8,8 to 8,-8 linewidth 5 size 1,30,145 noborder heads
set arrow from -8,5 to 8,-5 linewidth 5 size 1,30 noborder heads

set arrow from -8,2 to 8,-2 linewidth 5 lc rgb 'dark-violet' size 1,30,145 empty heads
set arrow from -8,-2 to 8,2 linewidth 5 lc rgb 'dark-violet' size 1,30 empty heads
plot x

I would suggest to revert that change and recommend people who need arrows with dashed lines to use the noborder option. That will probably give less problems.

Christoph

[Ethan Merritt]

I am coming to agree with you. Better to revert the change and provide better documentation on how to get an acceptable arrow with a dotted shaft if necessary.

[Ethan Merritt]

reverted