Re: dashlength for gnuplot

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Rik wrote:

> On 02/28/2013 06:33 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:29:23 -0500
>> From: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
>> To: address@hidden
>> Cc: Trastu <address@hidden>, help-octave Octave
>>      <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: How to set different dot and dash sizes in plot
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>> On Feb 28, 2013, at 2:55 AM, Olaf Till wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 08:06:54PM -0500, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>> As far as I know, gnuplot doesn't have a way to changing the
>>>>>> duty-factor or size of its dashes or dots.
>>>> 
>>>> It is seemingly ony possible when setting the terminal. Example:
>>>> 
>>>> set terminal postscript eps enhanced monochrome dashlength 5.0
>>>> 
>>>> Olaf
>> 
>> -- moving to the maintainer's list --
>> 
>> The dashlength for both gnuplot's "aqua" and "postscript" terminals look too 
>> short to me.  Any objection to increasing the dashlength for these?
>> 
>> A proposal is attached.  This change can also be made for "wxt" but there is 
>> no support for changing the dashlength for "qt", "x11", or "windows".
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Ben,
> 
> I like it.  I added wxt to the terminals that want a dashlength of 1. 
> Otherwise, the dashes were really rather too large.  I also changed strcmpi
> to strcmp since term has been lower-cased by this point.  That was my
> oversight for not correcting it when I was overhauling these scripts a week
> ago.
> 
> --Rik

Ok.  I pushed a changeset.

Ben