Re: [Plplot-devel] Boolean command line arguments

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2014-03-07 10:06-0000 Andrew Ross wrote:

>
> I was just going to go ahead and change example 8 to use
> the sombrero function by default. This reminded me of a
> long running "feature" of plplot which I have found irksome
> in the past, namely that boolean command options can only
> set an option to true (1) not false (0).

Perhaps I am missing something, but wouldn't it be straightforward to
implement such options exactly like we implement driver options,
where, for example, we can set -drvopt text_clipping=0 or -drvopt
text_clipping=1 for the xcairo device?

Alan
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