Re: Replot in epslatex terminal

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

On Friday 24 June 2005 10:02 am, Ga=EBl Varoquaux wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 09:56:43AM -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > "Counter-intuitive" obviously has different meanings for each person.
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>     Sure, then lets make this behaviour obvious by stressing it in the
> help of the postscript terminal.=20

I am reminded of a request that went by on either the newsgroup or
the mailing list a while ago.  Re-casting it in the light of the=20
current discussion, it would be to create a new variant of 'set output'
that specifies a function to generate a filename, rather than the
filename itself.

	FILENAME(plotno) =3D sprintf("./plot_%02d.eps",plotno)
	set output sequential FILENAME

Each plot command would increment plotno and trigger the creation of a
new output file.

No, I don't have a full implementation in my head. I'm not sure=20
what difficulties might crop up.  But it would provide a
terminal-independent solution to the current problem.
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Ethan A Merritt       merritt@u.washington.edu
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