Re: Re: Plans for gnuplot version 5

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Karl-Friedrich Ratzsch wrote:
>
>> [control over dashed lines]
>
> The dashed lines and the point symbols available are different
> between terminals, with postscript having the largest variety
> available. As this would change the output of existing plots,
> change to a common set should be done at a major release.

+1.

I understand that black-and-while plotters, ascii terminals,
black-and-green monitors etc. need(ed) different handling of
linestyles and might have only been capable of providing a limited
number of colors.

Nowadays I don't see any reason why each terminal should have its own
set of default colours, dash patterns and point types.

I know it would be a huge change, but ideally every terminal could
provide the same symbols for points, the same default colours, the
same dash patterns, (the same size [ratio], the same font size, the
same default line width ... where applicable). I see no reason why wxt
starts at different size than Qt. Or why LaTeX generates different
size of plots than TikZ. Or why the ratios and line widths of PDF and
PostScript plots would be different.

Mojca