Philipp Niedermayer

> Concerning testing, we could also add the full xplt test suite as part of our nightly tests. @eltos would that work for you? That sounds very good, you could...

Why not the established `--format` for consistency with `compile`? Thinking in the direction of `pdf.embed`, there could potentially be other format specific elements in the future which might require distinguishing...

@oscargus > To summarize, this PR unifies the handling of line styles so that `get_linestyle` returns a string of the line style pattern and `get_dashes` returns the dash pattern. [...]...

> ```python > line2.set_linestyle(line1.get_linestyle()) > ``` If I'm not mistaken, with this PR using ```python line2.set_linestyle(line1.get_dashes()) # or the identical line2.set_dashes(line1.get_dashes()) ```` would also not work correctly, because `get_dashes` returns...