Re: Re: color loop for gd.trm

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> From: Petr Mikulik <mi...@ph...>
> Date: 2005/10/11 Tue PM 02:51:33 EDT
> To: Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu>
> CC: Shigeharu TAKENO <sh...@ie...>, 
>         gnu...@li...
> Subject: Re: color loop for gd.trm
> 
> >>   set term png xffffff x000000 x404040 \
> >>   xff0000 x00ff00 x0000ff xff00ff x00ffff xa0522d xffa500 xff7f50 \
> >>   xff0000 x00ff00 x0000ff xff00ff x00ffff xa0522d xffa500 xff7f50 \
> >
> > I see.  That is different from what I understood at first.
> >
> > So your goal is not to reduce the total number of colors, instead
> > it is to have the same default colors on all terminals?
> 
> What about
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> set style linetype colorsequence red,green,blue,"FFEE00", ...
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> which would redefine the color sequence for the linetype series, and then it 
> would become the same for all terminals?

Not a bad idea.  So the color would wrap when reaching the end of the sequence.  ("colorsequence" is quite long and not easily abreviated because of conflicts.)  A bit of extra work perhaps.  How would one guarantee that all terminals have the described colors?  And what would one do if that were not the case?  Complain when doing a "set term"?  It would seem that the non-defined colors gets us back to the same issue of color definitions for 1, 2, 3...

Dan