Re: special behavior of postscript terminal? (again)

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> I see two ways to move forward; there may be others:
> 
> 1) Formulate a more general model in which you can specify dash-pattern
> as an independent property at all times.  Most of the code necessary to
> support this is already in place
> (see http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.3/dashcolor.htm )
> but it is not exposed to the user in a friendly fashion.

It seems to me that a nice solution would be if "set style line" 
were extended to include a "dashtype/dt" option, in the same way 
that pointtype can be selected independently of other features of 
the line.  To be a bit more explicit, the idea is that you 
wouldn't need to set a top-level "dashed" option, but could choose 
from a common enumeration of types such as

0 = solid
1 = regular dashes
2 = dots
3 = short dashes
4 = dash-dot ...

(or some such), with the understanding that not all terminals 
would necessarily support all options.

Allin Cottrell