Re: postscript monochrome and specified color

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 11:05 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>>Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>>
>>>You ask for blue, you get blue.  
>>>If you don't want blue, don't ask for blue.
>>
>>But I asked for monochrome too.  Why can't I have that instead?
> 
> 
> If you ask for default dashed lines via "set term post dashed"
> that doesn't stop you from explicitly drawing a solid line.
> 
> If you ask for a small default font via "set term post font 'Times' 4"
> that doesn't stop you from explicitly writing labels in a larger font.
> 
> If you ask for default thick lines via 'set term post lw 5'
> that doesn't stop you from explicitly drawing a thin line.
> 
> So if you ask for default black lines via 'set term post mono',
> why should it stop you from explicitly drawing a blue line?

Because term property "monochrome" outranks other colors in the chess game of display mediums, I don't know.  None of those other defaults are term properties.  If there were a term property "nosolidlines" I would expect to not be able to draw any solid lines.

I programmed "with rgbimage" to come out as gray when postscript monochrome property is active.

Dan