Native TikZ backend?

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Jul-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| I'm not sure it's better if you're using gnuplot. But it seems to me
| that minor things get dropped when routing things through gnuplot from
| Octave. We have to express our plots within the limitations of gnuplot,
| which means that sometimes you don't get what you asked for. E.g.
| sometimes you don't get the markers on your plot that you asked for in
| Octave. We should be able to avoid such issues if we don't send things
| through gnuplot in the first place.

OK, predictible markers would be good.  What about mixing line colors
and dashed lines?

| That being said, I'm not sure if it is worth spending time on such a
| backend.

It would just be for printing, right?  You would still need the OpenGL
backend to generate plots for the screen?

But it could be worth the effort because I don't know that we
currently have a way to generate high quality output for printing when
using the OpenGL backend.

jwe