Re: enhanced text default in 5.0

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

On 06/30/2014 08:32 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> Is there any way you could provide a global switch to turn off the
> "enhanced text" default in gnuplot 5.0? I'm afraid it's a pain to
> have to guard against underscores coming out as subscript markers.

Allin,

You may set whatever parameters you like via the startup script.  See 
"help startup".


> BTW, this isn't very nice:
>
> myrtle:~$ /opt/gnuplot/bin/gnuplot
>
>           G N U P L O T
>           Version 5.0 patchlevel rc1    last modified 2014-06-24
>
>           Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1998, 2004, 2007-2014
>           Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
>
>           gnuplot home:     http://www.gnuplot.info
>           mailing list:     gnu...@li...
>           faq, bugs, etc:   type "help FAQ"
>           immediate help:   type "help"  (plot window: hit 'h')
>
> Terminal type set to 'wxt'
> gnuplot>  set term pngcairo noenhanced
> Terminal type set to 'pngcairo'
> Options are ' background "#ffffff" enhanced fontscale 1.0 size 640, 480 '
> gnuplot>  set termoption noenhanced
> gnuplot>  show term
>
>      terminal type is pngcairo  background "#ffffff" enhanced
> fontscale 1.0 size 640, 480
>
> After the "set termoption" command, at least, it seems that
> "enhanced" is in fact turned off, but that's not what's shown. The
> guest that won't leave!

Looks like a bug in pngcairo terminal, shouldn't be too difficult to 
come up with a patch file.  The "noenhanced" setting/display works here 
on x11 and on qt.  I would say there is some inconsistency the way this 
info is displayed.  For example, for x11 enhanced is "enhanced" and 
noenhanced is absence of "enhanced" while for qt enhanced is absence of 
"noenhanced" and noenhanced is "noenhanced".  I.e.:

gnuplot> set term x11
Terminal type set to 'x11'
Options are ' nopersist enhanced'
gnuplot> set term x11 noenhanced
Terminal type set to 'x11'
Options are ' nopersist'
gnuplot> set term qt
Terminal type set to 'qt'
Options are '0 font "Sans,9"'
gnuplot> set term qt noenhanced
Terminal type set to 'qt'
Options are '0 noenhanced font "Sans,9"'

Not that important.  Not that confusing.  Just consistency.

Dan