From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jan 12 02:08:05 2004
Subject: Re: color choice in plotting
From: Christoph Dalitz <christoph dot dalitz at hs-niederrhein dot de>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:02:17 +0100

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:00:32 -0600
"John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:
> 
> This has come up many times, and the answer is that Octave does not
> support "linetype" as an option to gplot and probably never will.  The
> problem is that since Octave has to parse the command, it creates a
> maintenance problem when gnuplot changes (the linetype option was not
> always a part of gnuplot, for example).
> 
I understand that Octave needs to identify and expand its variables in
the gplot statement, but why can Octave not send the rest of the gplot
statement unaltered to gnuplot?

Could you give me a hint where to look in the Octave sources in order
to investigate this in more detail?

Thanks,

Christoph Dalitz



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