Re: postscript dash patterns in parametric vs data plots

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Oh, nice observation. At 104-105-106 gnuplot (or maybe PS terminal)
> most probably starts being a bit more "careful" about too long lines.

That's actually the effect of a bug fix we put in to accomodate 
renderers that accumulate round-off errors if a single PS polyline path 
becomes too long.  That bug fix has been in there for 7 years now.

> (PS: one could definitely optimize the output with zillions of lines like
> 2 0 V
> 2 0 V

Not really one couldn't, because a straight line is a very special case 
of a parametric curve.  The short moves are strictly necessary to make 
curves that actually curve out of straight segments.