Re: 2.9.10, finally?

[Daniel J Sebald]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 21-Mar-2007, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> | John W. Eaton wrote:
> | 
> | >   - It is no longer possible to mix Matlab-style plot commands with
> | >     the old (and now really obsolete) style of plot commands
> | >     (__gnuplot_set__, etc.).  You can do one or the other, but not
> | >     both for the same plot.
> | 
> | Not true.  In fact, it currently may be the best setup yet.  Consider the following:
> | 
> | image
> | ps = get(gcf,"__plot_stream__")
> | fprintf(ps,"unset colorbox\n")
> | fprintf(ps,"replot\n")
> | fflush(ps)
>
> OK, but I'd rather not recommend doing this sort of thing.
>
> At the very least, we should tell people that if they do tricky things
> like this, then their code will depend explicitly on gnuplot, which
> will make it fail for other graphics backends.

Not recommended, but it is a non-portable way of accessing the external graphics 
engine and possibly using otherwise unreachable features.  I think that is a 
good thing.  Don't have to mention "gnuplot", simply that __gnuplot_set__, etc 
are gone.

Dan