Re: svg : gnuplot_plot_1

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

On Saturday, 22 October 2011, pl...@pi... wrote:
> There is a logical inconsistency it would seem. The svg title is more a
> property of the plot than of the terminal.

That's the way I understand it.
 
> Correct me if I am wrong but I suppose all the features we are
> discussing here are established in stable releases and hence pose a
> problem of backwards compatibility if they are changed. Specifically ,
> does that apply to the 'name' option?

The mousing version of the svg terminal is only in the CVS branch,
so no, this doesn't affect svg in the released version 4.4

But the equivalent "name" option support to support mousing is
in the released version of the canvas terminal.

Currently the PostScript and PDF terminals write a prologue record
  /Title (<filename>)
but there have been many complaints from people who don't like the
way that some external tools handle this.  They suffer from a problem
equivalent to the one you originally complained about, that the
title of the first [last?] plot is displayed as if it were the title
of the whole document the plot is embedded in.  If you look on the
Feature Request and Bug trackers, you'll find requests to change
this and not write a Title record at all.  

	Ethan