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From: Mojca M. <moj...@gm...> - 2011-09-11 08:51:16
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Dear list, Would it be possible to put picins.sty to docs/, so that documentation (pdffigures) will at least compile without problems? The file is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.sty and has been removed from most TeX distributions. It would help a lot if it was present in the folder where docs are built, together with all the headers etc. Thank you, Mojca |
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From: Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu> - 2011-09-11 16:52:08
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On Sunday, 11 September 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Would it be possible to put picins.sty to docs/, so that documentation > (pdffigures) will at least compile without problems? The idea was that we provide by default a simple target "make pdf" that does not require any local customization of the TeX environment or figure-generation tools. That should be sufficient for most development purposes. The more complex target "make pdffigures" is used to generate a pdf verion of the manual, with figures, that is included in the distribution package. So the end user gets a copy of gnuplot.pdf that includes figures, and need not have TeX installed at all. On the other hand, it's not that hard to regenerate a copy of the pdf+figures from the CVS source yourself. It is true that you may have to tweak the local TeX environment to successfully use the "make pdffigures" target rather than "make pdf". But you clearly have far more TeX experience than I do, so it seems surprising that you would have difficulty installing one extra *.sty file on your system. cheers, Ethan |
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From: Mojca M. <moj...@gm...> - 2011-09-12 07:47:31
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On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 18:51, Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote: > On Sunday, 11 September 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> Would it be possible to put picins.sty to docs/, so that documentation >> (pdffigures) will at least compile without problems? > > On the other hand, it's not that hard to regenerate a copy of the > pdf+figures from the CVS source yourself. It is true that you may > have to tweak the local TeX environment to successfully use the > "make pdffigures" target rather than "make pdf". But you clearly have > far more TeX experience than I do, so it seems surprising that you > would have difficulty installing one extra *.sty file on your system. It is not about skills needed to install picins.sty. (One could probably also compile gnuplot with manual calls to gcc, without having to use ./configure etc.) It is about the ability to make compilation work out-of-the-box. The file is so small that I don't see any harm in including it (just placing a copy to <repository>/docs/picins.sty). Trivial patches add up. I can easily imagine that linux distributions would prefer to build gnuplot with "make pdffigures", but they won't if they have to patch sources. Mojca |
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From: Allin C. <cot...@wf...> - 2011-09-12 15:48:53
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > It is not about skills needed to install picins.sty. [...] > > It is about the ability to make compilation work out-of-the-box. I guess the problem here is that picins.sty is a rather ancient LaTeX file -- designed for the old LaTeX 2.09 and last revised in 1992. It's available on CTAN but may not be included in some modern packagings of TeX/LaTeX -- or at least may be in some relatively hard-to-find auxiliary package. I can see a case for including a copy in the gnuplot sources. Allin Cottrell |
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