Re: Argh: Why are arrows clipped to the graph?

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

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 04:14 pm, Harald Harders wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 
> > What you are now finding is that this generic clipping doesn't always
> > work the way you would like, because the individual terminal drivers
> > are not consistent.
> 
> But that's not caused by generic or specific clipping. It is caused by the
> fact that the clipping boundary is in the middle of the canvas in many
> cases.


Well, in this particular case it is caused by the fact that when
post.trm expands its drawing limits, it does not change the values
of term->xmax and term->ymax.   Therefore if you clip against them,
it doesn't work.  So far as I know, other terminal drivers
correctly report what their actual limiting coordinates are.


> I hope so. The most important thing for me is to combine both correct
> clipping with saving compatibility with my old postscript/epslatex plots.

Good luck on that.  As I keep pointing out, you cannot both have
compability across terminals and compatibility with old versions,
because in the old (and current) version the terminals themselves
are not compatible.


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