Re: How best to plot contours + explicit lines?

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

> So I have removed "table" as a terminal type altogether, and replaced
> it with a pair of commands
> 	set table {"outfile"}
> 	...
> 	unset table

Cool.

BTW, I've just found an old mail from a discussion on potential new options
for the table output, if someone wants to add them (some of these options
would shorten the file size):

I think there was somebody proposing some new options for 'set term table'
recently?

The table terminal can be used to save gridded data into a file. Then it
would be convenient to strip the comments and the last column with flags.
Even though it is possible to parse the output file via an awk script, I
think that the following built-in options could be useful:

set term table [[no]com$ments] [space | tab | separator "xx"] [ [[no]u]
[[no]i] [[no]o] [[no]flag]

current definition is: set term table comments space u i o flag

(*) nocomments - don't write comments to the output file
(*) tab - separate columns by \t instead of single space
(*) i, o, u - write data points which are in, out, undef
(*) noi, noo, nou - don't write data points which are in, out, undef
(*) [no]flag - [don't] write the last column with the u,i,o flag