Re: special behavior of postscript terminal? (again)

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

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> We made a concerted effort for 4.2 to bring the sequence of 
> point types into conformity across terminals.  So far as I 
> recall, no one argued for doing the same to dash patterns. I 
> have no objections to someone offering a series of patches that 
> re-orders the sequence of dash patterns to achieve some level of 
> cross-terminal agreement.

Since I haven't yet looked into the code in detail on this point 
I'm somewhat in the dark.  But what I had (vaguely) in mind was 
some sort of analogue to the way in which one can now force colors 
on "line styles" in a consistent, more or less 
terminal-independent, manner.  Could one force a consistently 
enumerated set of dash-patterns using "set style line dt"?

If so, that would avoid disrupting time-honored per-terminal 
default patterns.  You could stay with the defaults if you like, 
or if you're interested in cross-terminal compatibility you could 
define a set of line styles including dash-types.  (?)

Allin Cottrell