Re: Plot placement, revisited

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

On Thursday 29 July 2004 07:42 am, mi...@ph... wrote:
> However, is there a color number for background? I.e.
>    set key opaque color lt -2
> or like that?

Yes, at least partially.

I went through prior to the version 4.0 release and made
many terminals honor LT_BACKGROUND (-2) when setting
a color.  But I could not check all the terminals, and I did not
add it to the documentation because the work was not complete.
Please feel free to go ahead and test this on os2, windows,
and the various other terminal types I can't test easily.
 
> I think I was stucked several times not being able to draw a label in the
> background colour. I wish this number gets introduced (it may need
> transfer of the knowledge from terminal to gnuplot).

I had vague ideas of making "background" or "bkg" a legal 
linetype specifier, since that is more obvious than saying
    plot 'data' with boxes lt bkg
than
    plot 'data' with boxes lt -2

But is it worth changing the syntax in every command
that accepts line type?



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