Re: extending pstricks terminal driver

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

> Gnuplot currently provides the following "TeX" terminals:
[...]
> where there is no single one that would satisfy my expectations.
> PS/PDF provides no TeX labels, pslatex doesn't work with pdftex,
> pstricks have serious problems working with pdftex apart from the fact
> that a lot of functionality is missing, latex looks ugly and doesn't
> even have color output, mp is lacking functionality, all others are
> old and not maintained. How should some newbie user know which
> terminal to use?
>
> Apart from that, colors and point shapes differ between terminals.

Have you tried epslatex recently?  Harald Harders has completely
reworked it.  It has the look and feel of the postscript terminal
with latex output for the textual parts.  By converting the eps file
into pdf you can even use pdflatex with it.

Juergen