Re: Plans for gnuplot version 5

[Tait <gnu...@t4...>]

I'm wishing I'd kept a list somewhere, now. Off the top of my head:

Change the default color sequence
The default colors are poor for accessibility (red-green
color-blindness being the most common, for example), poor for printing
(saturation and color profile conversions), poor for conversion to
grayscale, and don't fit within any of the usual
triadic/split-complementary/etc. color schemes.

Default enhanced mode on
It is more common to get questions about why sub/super-scripts don't
work, and sometimes people don't even realize gnuplot is capable of
non-ascii because enhanced mode defaults off. I think the more common
use case is for users to want the enhanced behavior, and where it is
unwanted users can turn it off for an individual label/title, or for
the entire terminal. It's particularly confusing for a user to "set
title ... enhanced" and then have it not work because they hadn't
previously "set term ... enhanced".

Maybe it's worthwhile CC-ing the Octave developers on this topic?

sfeam <sf...@us...> said (on 2014/03/05):
> Important note:  If there is some behaviour or syntax in gnuplot
> that has been annoying you for the last 20 years, please speak up.
> This is the best chance you will have to get it changed!