On Nov 22, 2010, at 22:03 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 20:15, Florian Wobbe wrote: > >> Especially for line drawings it would be beneficial not to place every >> single point. Instead consecutive points should be skipped if they are close >> to each other (with regard to plot units) - it makes no sense to include >> points which you won't see anyway. This could be done by defining a grid >> with a certain (user defined) resolution and rounding the coordinates (plot >> units) of a line point to the nearest grid node. All consecutive line points >> falling on the same grid node should not be passed on to terminal drivers. >> The psxy utility of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does this for >> instance. I am not aware of such a functionality within gnuplot but it would >> be a nice feature. > > But this is an issue of Gnuplot, not something that a terminal writer > is supposed to think of.
Indeed, this was my point in the first place. It should be handled by gnuplot prior to handing the data over to the terminal driver. > But yes, it would be nice if also ConTeXt terminal would be included. > It still doesn't support raw images, but most other features are > present. Right, this might help increase the awareness among academics. Also not everyone has the ability to build gnuplot from sources. Florian ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
