Argh: Why are arrows clipped to the graph?

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

Ethan,

please tell me the cause why this plot file only plots two arrows in
total and one partly? One is omitted totally in the postscript terminal.
In x11 terminal, the arrows are okay.

set terminal postscript eps
set output 'asdf.eps'
set arrow from graph -0.05,0 to graph 1,1
set arrow from graph 0.0,0 to graph 1,1
set arrow from graph 0.05,0 to graph 1,1
set arrow from screen 0,1 to screen 1,0
plot sin(x)
set output
set term x11
replot
pause -1

All arrows are within the bounds of the canvas. It has to be my own
decision if I want to plot arrows placed by "set arrow" only inside the
plot or at an arbitrary position in the canvas.

Of course, arrows produced by a plot command are supposed to be bounded by
the graph boundaries. But 'set arrow' has to enable the user to put them
everywhere within the canvas.

Before you started to fiddle about the clipping and canvas stuff,
everything worked fine. What is the cause for these "improvements" that
restrain the user unnecessarily?

If you want to, add an option 'bounded <coord>' to the 'set arrow'
command, e.g.
  set arrow .... bounded graph
to define boundaries for the arrow. But this may not be the default.

Harald

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