Re: [gnuplot-beta]Re: metapost terminal

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

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Andrzej [utf-8] W=C4=85sowski wrote:

> Ethan A Merritt <merritt <at> u.washington.edu> writes:
>=20
> > With their guidance I have patched the terminal to support text r=
otation
> > and filled boxes.  I do not know how to add pattern-fill, but for=
 the moment
> > I have dummied it up with different solid fill densities.
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> This is actually the reason, why I have not followed-up yet. It is =
not
> straightforward to do pattern fills with metapost. I think one need=
s to draw the
> patterns (generate metapost code to do it) and then clip the to the=
 box.=20

Not necessarily.  The general method for platforms that don't support
patterns in some native way is to draw them as lots of individual lin=
es.
That's possible because we do pattern-filling only for boxes.

> I have noticed also another difference. The grid lines are solid in
> metapost output and dashed (dotted?) in postscript output. Shall I =
look
> into making those the same?

Not necessary.  As long as the grid line style is noticably lighter t=
han
the borders, you're OK.  Some terminals dot it, some draw it in gray,=
 some
others combine those two.

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