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[Yann Dirson <address@hidden>]

Hi Mark,

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 05:36:24PM -0500, Mark Arrasmith wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 September 2005 04:43 pm, Yann Dirson wrote:
> >Nevertheless, to produce documents for a B&W printer, it may
> > be useful to provide the choice to use the color mode or not.
> 
> In your gnuplot session just use "set terminal postscript eps enhanced 
> color".

Yes and no.  Yes it works, but due to the fact that each gluplot run
processes a single input, that means prepending that string to every
plotting command.

That may be reasonable for a document with a small number of graphs,
but becomes unpractical when there are several tens of them.
Especially when one expects to get both a color-enabled version for
on-screen display, and a black/white one for printing.

We also have an esthetic issue, in that prepending that long string to
every graph command in a standard session just hides the interesting
stuff.  What about the following (albeit simplistic) session:

set terminal postscript eps enhanced color~plot sin(x)
set terminal postscript eps enhanced color~plot cos(x)


I hope this clarifies why I think there is a problem.

Best regards,
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