Re: [gnuplot-beta]Re: metapost terminal

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

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 02:30 pm, Arun Persaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andrzej Wa;sowski wrote:
> > [...]I think it is better to have consistent colors, although I find
> > metapost driver colors much, much, much, oh so much, more appealing
> > than postscript colors (at least the first 8). [...] I hope that
> > current metapost colors are among these.
>
> Me too, is there a way to keep the metapost colors somewhere in the
> colormap?

I wasn't proposing to change the nature of the colors, just
re-arrange them into the order (names approximate)
	red green blue magenta cyan brown yellow 
to match other terminals like x11, png, and so on.
I'd probably add an 8th color since black is removed from 
the list.

The rationale is that if you compose a figure interactively
and then change terminal types to save a permanent copy
you want the colors to stay more or less as you saw them on
the screen.  But not all terminal types agree on colors anyhow,
and I will leave them alone if metapost users prefer it that way.

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