Re: Gnuplot version 5.0 is now available

[Achim G. <Str...@Ne...>]

Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de> writes:
> Other than that things seem to work well although we'll have to change a
> number of scripts that got caught in the changes w.r.t. to the linetype
> command and some tightened syntax rules.  On the upside it looks we can
> drop a patch that gave us more linetypes and dash patterns and just
> define them in the defaults instead.

We've adapted the scripts now.

It was mostly that in many places an "offset" is now required instead of
simply the two coordinates.

Some observations that need further investigation ("before" refers to
gnuplot 4.6.6 and we're using the cairopdf terminal unless otherwise noted):

The linetype -1 is no longer working as it did before at least when you try
to change the linewidth and/or the dash type.

The positioning of the plot area is different than before.  There's more
space below the title than there was before and less space below the plot
area if you have the legend below the plot.

The ticks and grid lines are much thicker than before.

The Cairo PDF output is about 50% larger than before.  Going through PS and
ghostscript doesn't produce noticeably larger files.


Regards,
Achim.