Re: [gnuplot-beta]metapost terminal

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

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Daniel H. Luecking wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Daniel H. Luecking wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I did seek guidence when I chose the colors.  The best I could get
> > > was the advice that they should be distinguishable, and black is easy to
> > > distinguish from almost anything.
> >
> > But we're already using black for the borders, tick marks,  and all kinds
> > of text in the graph.  You usually want to be distinguishable from those,
> > too.
> 
> You don't need color to distinguish a plotted curve from those things.

I disagree.  Curves can come asymptotically close to the borders, or do
other strange things that make it hard to find them if the whole diagram
is black, as a plot of only one dataset in metapost would currently be,
from what has been said here.

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