Re: Inconsistent point types between terminals

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> writes:

> On Thursday, 30 January 2020 21:32:02 PST Dima Kogan wrote:
>> Hi. I just stumbled upon another bug-looking behavior.
>>
>> The different point types aren't the same across terminals. There's no
>> specific reason for that, right?
>
> gnuplot> help pointttype
>
> [...]
>  The first 8 point types are shared by all terminals. Individual terminals may
>  provide a much larger number of distinct point types. Use the `test` command
>  to show what is provided by the current terminal settings.

Aha. Thanks for the note. I'd like to normalize this at least somewhat.
The usual workflow for me (and probably for others) is:

1. Do work, mess around with the data, look at it with an interactive
   terminal (x11 in my case) as I go. Make plots lots of times

2. Eventually I'm happy with what I have, I make a PDF and send it out
   in an email

The expectation is that the PDF is the same thing I was seeing on the
screen, and the inconsistent point types break that. I want to say that
of the common terminals I looked at, the x11 terminal is the odd one
out. If that's the case, any objections if I patch that?