Re: Metapost term and solid filling

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, [iso-8859-2] Andrzej W=B1sowski wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> I am trying to use the metapost terminal to produce a bar chart
> (boxes). One of the several problems I have is that despite that
> style solid is on, metapost term just outputs line drawing.=20

As is explained somewhere in the docs (or so I think...), not all ter=
minal
drivers support all features of gnuplot.  metapost, e.g., has a boxfi=
ll
function, but that predates the addition of filled boxes plotting sty=
le to
gnuplot by several years --- it's from the time when the only usage o=
f
term->fillbox was by the 'clear' command, to clear an area for an ins=
et
plot.

> This version produces excellent boxes plots (in fact metapost proce=
ssed
> gnuplot graphs are so much more beatiful than those produced with
> postscript term directly!).=20

It's still incomplete, though: you should support patterned fill styl=
es,
too.

> My question is: why is this not implemented this way?=20

Simple: because nobody sat down and implemented it.  This is open sou=
rce,
which means that in the essence nothing ever gets done until somebody
mounts up the initiative to do it.

--=20
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.