[Gnuplot-bugs] use_style macros

[<pl...@pi...>]

Hi,

an idea just sprung out of the assign() discussion but I'll split it her=
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so as not to mix the two.

I've long found the most cumbersome and unreadable lines in my gnuplot  =

files are plot commands.

These can get very long , split over several lines since there is quite =
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lot of definitions to get in there and they become pretty hard to scan, =
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especially if using the abreviated forms.

a separate idea for cleaning up 'using' clauses and making the whole thi=
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more readable would be 'using macros'. One could define a set of 'using'=
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parameters and reference them with a macro-like structure.

eg.
A=3D'with lines color rgb gold linestye dotted smooth acspline';        =
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(E&OE)
plot 1:2: using use_sytle(A) t 'line one';

This would be nice and easy to code. The definition is a simple variable=
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which gets subsituted as the plot command is parsed, the string is  =

inserted at the current position and the rest of the parse continues fro=
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where it stopped.

Just a thought , now back to assign().

regards, Peter.