Re: [Gnuplot-info] non-working linewidth and dashpattern in epslatex terminal?

[David K. <da...@gn...>]

Ethan A Merritt <eam...@gm...> writes:

> On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:13:49 Ethan Merritt wrote:
>> You are now, as I understand it, advocating that both the linewidth and dashtype
>> properties should act as the linecolor does.  I'm fine with adding that as
>> a user-specified option, but it would be something new rather than a return to
>> what any previous gnuplot version did.
>
>
> It occurs to me that if we do add something of this sort,
> it might be more usable to assign the linewidth or dashpattern
> directly to a series of contour levels rather than indirectly by 
> counting out linetypes and tryiing to figure out which level is
> going to get which linetype.
>
> Something like we already do with axis tic labels
>
>   set cntrlabel onecolor
>   set cntrparam level discrete 0 dashtype '..'
>   set cntrparam level add incremental 10, 10 linewidth 2
>   set cntrparam level add incremental 2, 10 linewidth 0.5
>   set cntrparam level add incremental 4, 10 linewidth 0.5
>   set cntrparam level add incremental 6, 10 linewidth 0.5
>   set cntrparam level add incremental 8, 10 linewidth 0.5
>
> That would get you a dotted contour at 0, heavy lines every 10,
> and thin lines every 2 otherwise.  All the same color in this case.
>
> Thoughts?

Mostly useless for linetypes displayed in a key.  Both plot types and
contour line labels are usually listed in a key, so it does not make a
lot of sense to treat them differently in that respect.

-- 
David Kastrup