Re: fill pattern

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

On Saturday 26 August 2006 10:45 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> Would it be possible to store prologues into the binary somehow, so
> that if the file isn't found, the string stored in the binary would be
> used as a fallback? I guess that that would cause much less trouble to
> 99% of users which don't mind editing that file anyway.

You can build it that way if you want.
Just make sure that GNUPLOT_PS_DIR is #undefined during the build.
At least, that was the intent.
 
> Yesterday I took a closer look to the prologues. It's too late for
> 4.2, but for the next release: now the colors are "partially
> hardcoded". It means that one can change "color of linetype 3", but
> not the overall number of colors (unless h/shee manually replaces all
> the occurencies of "set color to linetype 4" to whatever other
> number). It shouldn't be that difficult to reimplement it is such a
> way that one would specify a list of colors to be used, gnuplot would
> output "linetype 30" and PostScript could figure out which color that
> is from current settings.

I agree.


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