Re: bug in terminals affected by 'set size'

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 06 October 2005 03:38 pm, Harald Harders wrote:
> 
> I still have the idea that there should be a terminal-independent option
> that changes the size of the canvas by a factor. I am aware that this
> would be difficult to explain because a thing like
>   set canvasscale 1.5,1.5
>   set terminal png size 640,480
> would lead to a picture of the size 960 x 720 which seams pretty
> unlogical.

That is, in fact, what "set size" + "set term png size XX,YY"
has done all along.

The fact that I didn't even know this myself until testing shows
that it is not obvious :-)


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