Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-06 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 14:44:20 (-0500) Jim Dishaw writes: On Mar 5, 2015, at 5:45 AM, Phil Rosenberg p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote: I sort of agree. Sounds like a maintenance nightmare, plus, again, I thought that was the buffer's role - sit after major processing (e.g.

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-06 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 00:14:27 (-0600) Maurice LeBrun writes: I think my last project involved implementing overlaid rulers. They weren't saved as part of the plot buffer but done as the last stage so that moving ^^^ Argghh.. I meant the xwin pixmap

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-03-05 14:44-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: On Mar 5, 2015, at 5:45 AM, Phil Rosenberg p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote: I sort of agree. Sounds like a maintenance nightmare, plus, again, I thought that was the buffer's role - sit after major processing (e.g. After contour generation) but

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-05 Thread Jim Dishaw
: Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 12:56:22 (-0500) Jim Dishaw writes: On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:04 AM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: If you think that escape code trick should work as a way to transport raw user input directly

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-05 Thread Phil Rosenberg
...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca Cc: Phil Rosenberg p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com; PLplot development list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions On Mar 4, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2015-03-04 16:07-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: On Mar

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-03-05 08:43- Phil Rosenberg wrote: Perhaps I misunderstood. I thought plmeta was going to write out the data from the buffer, therefore, it's not about what data reaches plmeta, but what ends up in the buffer? @Phil: Now you brought it up, I realize I am not sure about that myself.

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-05 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 12:56:22 (-0500) Jim Dishaw writes: On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:04 AM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: If you think that escape code trick should work as a way to transport raw user input directly to plmeta to be stored in the plmeta file, can

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-05 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Message- From: Maurice LeBrun m...@brownwolf.org Sent: ‎05/‎03/‎2015 09:42 To: Jim Dishaw j...@dishaw.org Cc: PLplot development list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 12:56:22 (-0500) Jim Dishaw writes: On Mar

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Dishaw
On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:04 AM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: Of course, it is always true that if you store raw user input (as opposed to some transformed result) in the plmeta file and then plrender calls the relevant plplot routine with that raw user data, then the direct

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-04 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Regarding non-solid lines, are you referring to dashed lines? If so what is the issue? The devices have different number of pixels, which results in a different number of dashes. The plplot docs state that the dash sizes are specified in mm. They should therefore be saved in the buffer as mm

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Dishaw
On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Phil Rosenberg p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding non-solid lines, are you referring to dashed lines? If so what is the issue? The devices have different number of pixels, which results in a different number of dashes. The plplot docs state that the

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-03-04 16:07-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Phil Rosenberg p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding non-solid lines, are you referring to dashed lines? If so what is the issue? The devices have different number of pixels, which results in a different number of

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Dishaw
On Mar 4, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2015-03-04 16:07-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Phil Rosenberg p.d.rosenb...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding non-solid lines, are you referring to dashed lines? If so what is the issue? The

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-04 Thread Phil Rosenberg
] plot metafile questions I have gotten things to the point where the differences are due to round off error, the rendering of non-solid lines, and plot symbols generated by commands that utilize plhrsh (i.e. plsym, plpoin, and plpoin3). Rendering non-solid lines I can't think of a simple

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-03-04 02:41-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: I have gotten things to the point where the differences are due to round off error, the rendering of non-solid lines, and plot symbols generated by commands that utilize plhrsh (i.e. plsym, plpoin, and plpoin3). Thanks, Jim. Sounds like you have made

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Dishaw
of dashes. From: Jim Dishaw Sent: ‎04/‎03/‎2015 07:42 To: PLplot development list Subject: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions I have gotten things to the point where the differences are due to round off error, the rendering of non-solid lines, and plot symbols generated by commands

Re: [Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-04 Thread Jim Dishaw
On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:04 AM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2015-03-04 02:41-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: I have gotten things to the point where the differences are due to round off error, the rendering of non-solid lines, and plot symbols generated by commands that utilize

[Plplot-devel] plot metafile questions

2015-03-03 Thread Jim Dishaw
I have gotten things to the point where the differences are due to round off error, the rendering of non-solid lines, and plot symbols generated by commands that utilize plhrsh (i.e. plsym, plpoin, and plpoin3). Rendering non-solid lines I can't think of a simple solution to this problem