Re: Please suggest syntax for new command

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

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 05:59 am, Hans-Bernhard Br=C3=B6ker wrote:
> > I'm using as a test:
> > 	set style preferences {ls|linestyle|lt|linetype}
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> I think "set style increment" or "set style autoincrement" would be
> clearer.  And because auto-increment affects point types as well as line=
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> types, I think the option values would have be "type" and "style", or=20
> maybe "system" and "user", not ls and lt.

Good point.


> > 	text comment to be stored in the output	file if possible
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> Strictly terminal-specific ---> set term or set termoption

The notion was to be able to associate arbitrary text, say a figure
caption, with the plot as it was generated.  This does not depend on
the terminal type, and if you do a "set term ... replot"  you would
want that same text item to go into the new output format as well.
It's not really on my list of things to do; I just mentioned it as
another example of a plot property.


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742