Re: few remarks

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

On Thursday 12 August 2004 10:35 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Well, I looked at this.  The value that gnuplot_x11 was putting in for 
> plot->lwidth is 1, not zero.  So that means the following property of 
> CapNotLast should *not* apply.

Yes, but Dave's point was that the call used to look like this:
	XSetLineAttributes(dpy, gc, 0, LineSolid, CapButt, JoinBevel);

so the linewidth was set to 0 no matter what the value of plot->lwidth.
He also says that x11 apparently interprets this as a license to use
whatever line style is fastest.  So if it thinks CapNotLast is faster, it
will use that.

If that is the correct analysis, then it is indeed a property of x11
itself but since it is documented that way I guess we don't get to
call it a bug.


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