Action for 4.2 [was Re: with image and reversed x-axis]

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

On Thursday 02 November 2006 01:43 pm, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > But what is "correct"?
> > Probably the post/svg version, but let's at least make this a
> > conscious decision.
>
> Yes, postscript is correct.

OK.  I will open a bug report that includes the test script.

Since this affects a lot of drivers, and at this time we
don't have a proposed fix for any of them, I don't see that it
will be possible to include a full fix in version 4.2

On the other hand, it seems the driver-independent fall-back
code used by svg and fig does work. So maybe we can include
a work-around in 4.2 that just forces use of the fall-back
code?  Something like:

# This is broken for some terminals due to a known bug
   plot [3:-3] 'binary1' binary u 1:2:($3+$1*0.1+$2*0.3) \
      with image

# However this is a work-around
   plot [3:-3] 'binary1' binary u 1:2:($3+$1*0.1+$2*0.3) \
      with image generic

where the "generic" keyword forces use of the terminal-independent
code rather than calling term->image()

Dan, is that something you can look into?

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