Re: symbol/color/line consistency in terminals

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Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> - "latex" doesn't support color, but we could upgrade that to use color
>   package.  (Just LaTeX is still very useful for basic figures.)

That would gravely endanger any usefulness of this driver.  The only 
real virtue of "latex" compared to other Tex-family drivers (emtex, 
eepic, and PostScript+LaTeX ones) is that its output is pure, 
unextended, driver-independent LaTeX.  Pulling in terminal-specific 
packages like "colour" would break that.

> - "jpeg", "png", "gif" and "tkcanvas" have no line patterns.

That's because GD, last I looked, didn't support linewidths on patterned 
lines.  Which made it rather pointless to try and implement dashing for 
the first three.

I have no idea what tk can, or can not do.

> - "jpeg" exactly matches "png" and "gif", but the colors are a slightly darker
>   hue than the other two output devices.  (No big problem, just peculiar.)

That could be due to a colour-space or gamma-factor difference somewhere 
between gnuplot and your eyes.  It's hard to tell whether the difference 
takes place on the way to the JPEG file, or on the way from there to 
your eye.