Re: TikZ-Terminal/Howto write terminals

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

Hi,

> [TikZ]
> 
> The problem now is, that the terminal is not told about all this stuff. It
> is only told to draw lines, texts, points, polygons and stuff.
> 
> What I like to have is access to some struct, which has the information on
> the plot, e.g. what the labels are, how the ticks are to be plotted, the
> titles of the plots, etc.
> 
> Then I can output the TiKZ code to draw the plot skeleton, i.e. box, axes,
> labels, ticks, tick marks, legends and so on. Then just the plots
> themselfes should be plotted the way it is implemented now by telling the
> terminal to draw simple lines.
> 
> Is there any possibility to archive this?

I have thought about this, too.  TikZ can do placements much better
than gnuplot ever could -- it just has to know about the context of
a label.

Some time ago, there were rumors about a sophisticated layer
concept.  Maybe this would even be enough information for TikZ: The
next point belongs to a front label, to a plot line, to the border,
...

I am not too deeply involved into this, though.


Juergen