Re[4]: arrowheads too long in PostScript terminal

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

> On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Alan G Isaac wrote:
>> I would still expect the ink not
>> to pass the point the arrow is drawn "to" (in the direction
>> of the arrow).

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003, Hans-Bernhard Broeker apparently wrote:
> I don't think so.  The question is why you drew an arrow, and how the
> average reader would read the resulting plot.  If the tip is visibly
> rounded, the most obvious position to be read out of it would indeed be
> the center of that arc, not some point on it, because it'd be hard to tell
> where on the arc that should be.

If we were talking about headless arrows with rounded caps,
I would agree with this.  (In otherwords, I am certainly
not arguing that the caps should be offset for a line 
segment.) But an arrowhead pins down a sense
of direction that eliminates the problem you raise.
Consider the attached EPS file.

Cheers,
Alan

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