Re: enhanced text default in 5.0

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> On 06/30/2014 08:45 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>> 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".
>
> I guess I should give an example seeing as you used "set termoption" to
> change the value.  Place the following in a startup script:
>
> set term pngcairo noenhanced
> set term qt noenhanced
> set term wxt noenhanced

Thanks. I tried just putting

set termoption noenhanced

into ~/.gnuplot. This works OK for wxt but not for pngcairo, 
although oddly enough it suppresses the printing of "enhanced" in 
"show term":

<gnuplot-startup>
Terminal type set to 'wxt'
gnuplot> show term

    terminal type is wxt 0 noenhanced

gnuplot> set term pngcairo
Terminal type set to 'pngcairo'
Options are ' background "#ffffff" fontscale 1.0 size 640, 480 '
</gnuplot>

No "enhanced" shown for pngcairo (as in my previous post) but 
underscores become subscripts all the same.

Actually, although the start-up file approach is certainly useful it 
doesn't fully meet the case I'm thinking of. That way I can tweak 
the appearance of gnuplot for myself, but not necessarily for other 
users of "my" econometric software that uses gnuplot as plotting 
engine: I wouldn't want to trample on a ~/.gnuplot file they might 
already have, whereas I'd be fine with setting a per-session global 
preference if it were available.

Allin Cottrell