Re: symbol/color/line consistency in terminals

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

> Similarly, there is now rotated text, for which we can use the LaTeX rotate package.  This one I don't think needs a special "set term latex rotate".  That would be confusing and there is no need for a "rotate" command if the user doesn't specify some piece of rotated text.


"ylabel" is rotated by 90 degrees by default, so yes - if supported, I
guess that you really need to provide a special keyword for it.

I would think (but I don't have LaTeX at hand on this computer) that
rotation and color should be supported by both dvips & pdfTeX, but
default options should not use any specials.

Having color in LaTeX terminal would nevertheless be very nice. The
old scripts won't break if you have to add the option color
explicitely, esp. since color is most probably supported by all most
important devices. It's not 100% clean and portable, but users would
probably prefer to have color than 100% portability, esp. if they
deliberately choose so (by selecting "color rotate").

(I missed the color very much when I was still using the LaTeX
terminal, and I didn't like eepic - it had worse defaults, even if
only the default linewidth and tic length was different than in LaTeX)

Mojca