Ethan Merritt schrieb:
> On Wednesday 15 October 2008 03:36:53 Christoph Bersch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently extending the pstricks terminal driver.
>>
>> Besides some general improvements it should support all color commands
>> using the enhanced coloring capabilities of the xcolor package. As this
>> would not work with Tex but only with LaTeX, I will include it as an
>> option for the driver.
>
> You correctly point out that the pstricks terminal driver has not been
> kept fully up to date with new gnuplot features. But gnuplot carries
> along many out-of-date drivers, so that by itself is not necessarily a
> problem.
>
> Probably it would be easy enough to add RGB color support using xcolor,
> but adding support for the various "with image" modes would be a lot
> more work.
You are right, I didn't think about the "with image" modes...
> I could offer more useful comments if I had a better understanding of
> why people would choose to use pstricks rather than epslatex.
> Is there some feature in pstricks that is missing from epslatex?
Well, to be honest: I don't really know :-) The current pstricks driver
has no features that the epslatex doesn't have.
As I work a lot with PSTricks, I just wanted to adapt the driver to
support more features.
I thought of one reasonable feature which could be included which is not
supported by other drivers:
- possibility to change the linestyles later in the LaTeX document:
...
\begin{document}
\newpsstyle{Solid}{linecolor=violet}
\input pstricksoutput
\end{document}
That would also allow the user to create its own linestyles (maybe
also dotstyles):
\newpsstyle{Solid}{linestyle=dashed, dash=1pt 2pt 3pt 4pt}
Christoph
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