Re: extending pstricks terminal driver

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

On Wednesday 15 October 2008 03:36:53 Christoph Bersch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently extending the pstricks terminal driver.
> 
> Besides some general improvements it should support all color commands 
> using the enhanced coloring capabilities of the xcolor package. As this 
> would not work with Tex but only with LaTeX, I will include it as an 
> option for the driver.

You correctly point out that the pstricks terminal driver has not been
kept fully up to date with new gnuplot features.  But gnuplot carries 
along many out-of-date drivers, so that by itself is not necessarily a
problem.

Probably it would be easy enough to add RGB color support using xcolor,
but adding support for the various "with image" modes would be a lot
more work.
 
I could offer more useful comments if I had a better understanding of
why people would choose to use pstricks rather than epslatex.
Is there some feature in pstricks that is missing from epslatex?

> Who is the maintainer of the pstricks driver? Is someone else currently 
> working on it and is it alright, if I extend it? (the last changelog in 
> the file is from Petr Mikulik from 2003).

We don't really have a list of official maintainers for individual
terminal drivers.  Feel free to submit patches via SourceForge.


 
> Christoph
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Ethan A Merritt
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