Re: Gnuplot version 5 release candidate

[Christoph B. <us...@be...>]

Zitat von Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...>:

> On Saturday, 17 May, 2014 10:39:07 Christoph Bersch wrote:
>>
> The dashed/solid terminal options are no longer needed.
>
>> I  don't see, how currently the default linetypes can be switched between
>> dashed and solid-only.
>
> set for [i=1:N] linetype i solid	# set all to solid (this is the default)
> set for [i=1:N] linetype i dt i      # set each linetype to a  
> different dash pattern
>
>> That would be like the `color` and `monochrome`
>> options of the terminals. You can change the *default* linetypes to be
>> dashed or only solid, but you could in any case use `dashtype` to use
>> dashed lines even if the terminal option is set to `solid`.
>
> Exactly.   mono/color is also no longer needed, for much the same reason.
> There is a sample monochrome style file in .../share but your
> comment reminds me that the new command
>    set colorsequence {default|classic|podo}
> could have a keyword for
>    set colorsequence mono
> that does basically the same thing as the sample script.

Hmm, maybe it would make sense to have a similar option to switch the  
default linetypes between dashed and solid. Something like `set  
linetype dashed|solid`. Then one could change the line sequences with  
e.g.

     set linetype dashed
     set colorsequence mono

> It would be nice if someone would volunteer to fix the generation
> of HTML documentation from the *.doc or *.tex or whatever.
> It has not worked well for a long time.  That would make it easier
> to provide links to specific online sections of the documentation
> rather than pointing to the whole *pdf file.

Good point, I had also thought about this. How was the HTML  
documentation of version 4.2 created, which is still online?

I already contacted the maintainer of gnuplotting.org, which has a  
very nice version of the 4.6. documentation on  
http://www.gnuplotting.org/manpage-gnuplot-4-6/. He sent me some  
helpful command line stuff, but it still needs a lot of extra work.  
I'll see if I can come up with a good script.

Christoph