Re: status of alternatives to linetype/pointtype?

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

On Monday 12 November 2007 12:34, Ralf Juengling wrote:
> 
> I'm sure this issue has been raised frequently
> in the past: It would be desirable to control
> the appearance of lines and points in a terminal-
> independent way.
> 
> Are there any proposals out there for how to realize this?

As to lines and the choice of existing point types, it has been
fully supported since the release of version 4.2 early this year.

See for instance:
	http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.2/dashcolor.html
	http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.2/rainbow.html

Furthermore, there is a new command
	set style increment user

that tells gnuplot to always choose user-defined line styles
in preference to the default line types (NB: 'style' vs. 'type').
This means that if you load a set of user-defined line styles as
a preface, all your old scripts should still work as before except
that they use the user-defined line styles.

There were a few corner cases in the original release where the
user-defined styles were not used  (3D contours, back-surfaces
of hidden3d plots)  but these have been fixed in 4.2.2

If you mean user definition of point types, please ask a more
specific question.  Some options are available there also.
See for example the 2nd to last plot of:
	http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.2/stringvar.html

-- 
Ethan A Merritt