Re: Qt terminal and dashed lines

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 12/20/2012 10:24 PM, 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?

Is dashlength working now?  I see it in the ChangeLog.


>> 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?

Perhaps, something like that.  I agree it isn't much to go on, though. 
I'll get X11 color dashes working in Octave first and see if I can 
reproduce the problem.


>> 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
>
> gnuplot
>    set term x11 dash
>    test

Working on it.  I need to figure out where .Xresources or .Xdefaults 
should reside.

Thanks,

Dan