Re: problems revealed by new demos

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

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> No feeling on your main point, but I read through the patch comments 
> because epslatex is one of my fav terminals.

I suspect I'm the one among the developers who *uses* gnuplot least 
frequently, so I don't have much of a favourite terminal driver, but 
still, I have some points I'd like to make:

*) we currently have *two* "combined ps + latex" drivers: pslatex
    and epslatex.  Yet this discussion has been only about epslatex.
    That doesn't seem right. In particular, it doesn't seem to make
    sense to go about modifying one of them alone, instead of
    collecting the best of both into a single, new one (while keeping
    an eye on pstex, too).

*) The two drivers have several differences.  Some of them are mainly
    accidental, others were made intentionally.  I.e. there are things
    in epslatex, like the particular choice of line type colours, that
    were designed the way they are *because* someone wanted them to be
    different from what pslatex does.  Harald's patch reverts some of
    those decisions, which I'm not quite happy with.

*) I don't see why we should need a new term API entry for
    setting the output.  Yes, the output file is currently a global
    variable, which is bad from a structural point of view.  But I really
    don't see why a modification of a single terminal driver should be
    allowed to change the API.  If we want to change the API, that's a
    separate issue, to be discussed independently.