Re: Separating line color and dot/dash pattern

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> - The obvious extension is to add a keyword "{dt|dashtype} <n>".

OK

> - A surprising number of terminal types already support dashed lines:
>     apollo be cgm dxf eepic emf epslatex fig gnugraph gpic gpr
>     hpgl iris4d metafont metapost next openstep post pslatex
>     pstricks tgif tpic unixplot win x11
>   But I suspect that other than the ones piggybacking on post.trm
>   they all disagree about specific dot/dash patterns.
>   Is this worth addressing?

Same linetype should produce the same pattern. And all terminals should
support "solid|dashed" option.

> - Another alternative is to create a small number of new linetypes.
>   I suppose these would internally be LT_DOTTED, LT_DASHED,
>   LT_DOTDASH, ..., and have negative index values (similar to -1
>   for the current LT_BORDER line type). Support for this would

Good idea.

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