Re: Qt terminal and dashed lines

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

On Thursday, 20 December 2012, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 December 2012, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > Related to the dashed lines issue, someone noticed that {solid|dashed} 
> > is not listed in the documentation for the Qt terminal even though these 
> > terms are accepted and appear to do something relevant.  
> 
> True.  The {dashed|solid} options seem to be missing from the terminal's
> help output.  Perhaps the idea was to hold off advertising it until
> dashlength could be implemented?  
> 
> > The user 
> > appears to not be able to get the proper dashed setting with a 
> > combination of "termoption" and "term", even though inside gnuplot the 
> > test page seems to function in a sensible way.  
> 
> That's not much of a description to work from.
> Have any more information?
> Is it just that the terminal doesn't offer the "dashlength" option?
> 
> > I'd say hold off on that 
> > other than perhaps adding {solid|dashed} to the Qt terminal 
> > documentation.  Fixing the x11 term is higher priority.
> 
> See other message.  I don't think there's anything wrong with the x11
> terminal.  You could make a case that the way x11 itself works is a 
> problem, but X has been that way for 25 years now.
> 
> echo "  gnuplot*dashed:       on
>   gnuplot*borderDashes:   0
>   gnuplot*axisDashes:    16
>   gnuplot*line1Dashes:    0
>   gnuplot*line2Dashes:   42
>   gnuplot*line3Dashes:   13
>   gnuplot*line4Dashes:   44
>   gnuplot*line5Dashes:   15
>   gnuplot*line6Dashes: 4441
>   gnuplot*line7Dashes:   42
>   gnuplot*line8Dashes:   13"  > xrdb -merge

Darn those fingers!  That should be a pipe of course.
echo "..." | xrdb -merge