Re: Contour plots (was "What should be set term, set output, set term, set term behavior?")

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

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> Also, I just want to confirm that gnuplot contours can't do the 
> following type of labelling?
> 
> ------ 20 ------
> 
> ------------ 30 --------

Right, it can't.  The main problem being that it's an absolute beast of
a problem to figure out *where* to put such labels, and not make a
complete fool out oneself half the time.  Re-writing TeX's layout
algorithm from scratch might be a piece-of-cake, in comparison.