Re: metapost terminal

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 10:15 am, Andrzej W=C4=85sowski wrote:
>
> Do you mean that there is some software level option that can be set in
> the terminal driver to make the calling code use primitive line drawing
> commands of the terminal to draw the patterns?

No. That's too hard.
I found a pattern-fill extension to metapost on the web, but it requires
a whole new wrapper layer on top of metapost which is probably more
trouble than it is worth for this purpose.
	http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/macros/mpattern/
Also there is this document, which I am sure you can evaluate
better than I can :-)
	http://www.gust.org.pl/PDF/BIUL/09/06-pb.pdf


> What is the chance that gnuplot will support pattern filling for other
> shapes than boxes in future?

There's already a patch on SourceForge (#908456) that extends
it to general polygons and filled curves.  But has only been implemented
for the cgm gd pdf post svg and x11 terminal types.

> Personally I prefer solid grid to the dotted one, but I
> would make it slightly thinner.

That sounds fine.


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