Re: Dots vs. dashes from Ambrose Li on 2008-01-28 (www-style@w3.org from January 2008)

From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:59:47 -0500
To: "David Woolley" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
Cc: "www-style@w3.org Style" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <af2cae770801280559i31293020m9f3ca701259eaddc@mail.gmail.com>

On 28/01/2008, David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
> PostScript (second edition) does not use different pens for dots and
> dashes in lines, and the example shows square edges, although I think
> that is subject to other parameters.

I don't think Postscript even has a notion of dotted lines. "Dotted" lines
are just a special case of dashed lines in Postscript, so it would be quite
cumbersome to make dotted lines made up of round dots.

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