Re: bug or feature?

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Saturday 06 March 2010, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 06 March 2010, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > > > Anyhow, for postscript and for the libgd-based png terminal you should be
> > > > able to get what you want by saying, for example,
> > > >   set term png butt
> > >
> > > Thanks, and Yes, I get that with libgd-png. In fact I get no
> > > spillover with "set term post eps" (without adding "butt")
> >
> > "Butt" is the default for the PostScript terminals.
> 
> Ah, OK. But then shouldn't that be consistent across terminals?

That's one side of the argument.
The other side is that "butt" in libgd produces really ugly lines
unless they are parallel to x or y.  Better to default to the option
that isn't so ugly.   To be fair, I haven't checked to see if libgd
version 2.0.36 is better than earlier versions in this regard.
Perhaps they've fixed it.

IMHO "rounded" is almost always better visually.  The only exception
is when you really do need bars that terminate exactly at some given
coordinate.