Re: pslatex terminal output--Problem identified.

[Dmitri A. S. <das...@gm...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Sunday 02 October 2005 09:54 am, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> 
>>Petr Mikulik wrote:
>>
>>>IMHO, these permanent options are a good idea even for interactive
>>>driving: for example, you can set terminals to "enhanced" mode in your
>>>.gnuplot file and don't need to do this in the driving program.
>>
>>I would need to do it
>>if somewhere in the middle of the session the mode has changed
>>to "noenhanced" for whatever reason...
> 
> 
> This is already supported in 4.1 via the "set termoption" command.
> "set termoption enhanced" will flip the current terminal into
> enhanced mode without changing anything else.
> 
> As of now only a limited subset of the possible terminal options
> can be changed mid-flight in this way: {no}enhanced and the
> default font.  Other options may be added, subject to the
> concern that the option must have the same meaning for multiple
> terminals.
> 

I guess I am not being clear. As I said, the problem with sticky options
is that it is impossible to predict what setting one going to get when
issued a command "set term post color". Let's say I am using a gnuplot
as a graphical backend to some program and I want to have a command 
"print" that does "set term post color; set output 'file.out'; replot".
The only way I can get a consistent format of the output graph if I 
specify explicitly _all_ the options to the "set term postscript" thing.
One example is when one does "set term post eps" and later
"set term pslatex". Since the "eps" option is sticky it messes up the
pslatex terminal...

Sincerely,

Dmitri.
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