Re: [Maxima-discuss] Adding terminal options (was Re: cairolatex terminals for draw package)

[Atri B. <bad...@op...>]

On Thu, 2025-11-27 at 20:44 +0000, Leo Butler wrote:
> As an aside, while I was reading your patch, it occurred to me that
> we
> are hard-coding terminal options in the format strings, when we
> should
> do this in some kind of alist or hashtable. That way, we could extend
> the current semantics of
> 
> terminal=...
> 
> to include something like:
> 
> terminal=[cairolatex,[pdf,text=black,crop]]
> 
> This would extend the existing syntax for wxt & related terminals:
> 
> terminal=[wxt,4]
> 
> This would require some significant re-factoring/re-organizing of
> gnuplot.lisp, but it would not be terribly complicated, imo.
> 

This would be a big, much welcome improvement indeed. I could try
taking a stab at implementing this, but with my (very!) limited
knowledge of lisp it might take me a bit.

> 
I am certainly available to test any patches and provide feedback in
any case.

Cheers,
--
Atri