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

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

David Kastrup <da...@gn...> writes:

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

> My expectation is colored by current documentation that is supposed to
> reflect the change from 4.x to 5.x.  It is not like I didn't quote it.
> As it is, Gnuplot is useless for creating monochrome surface plots with
> contours because all contour lines will look the same.  This wasn't the
> case in Gnuplot 4.x, and the documented replacement for versions >= 5.0
> does not work.

And this was already noted in
<https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/1612/#d961> in 2015 after which
the containing issue was closed without further comment.

There may be a backstory I am not aware of, but the resulting
discrepancy between documentation and code is not telling it.

-- 
David Kastrup