Re: special behavior of postscript terminal? (again)

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

On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> But am I right in thinking that the 
> dash-pattern spec doesn't work for x11, png, pngcairo and
> pdfcairo?  (It does for postscript.)

This is not correct.

All the cairo-based terminals support dashed lines.
In fact, most of the reasonably modern terminals do.

x11 has the most flexible support for dot/dash patterns of any
of the current terminals, since you can redefine it dynamically
using the X Resources gnuplot*line1Dashes and so on.
However, dotted/dashed lines on x11 look horrible, so it's a moot point.

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742