Re: various observations (added to list)

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Petr Mikulik wrote:
>>>> It is.  "help set noclabel"
>>>
>>>
>>> Please think how to add this info into gnuplot's help. I've asked the 
>>> same question some time ago.
>>
>>
>> It already is.  'help set contour' mentions 'set clabel', and 'help 
>> set clabel explains' what it does.
> 
> 
> Yes, it mentions ... but that easy solution how to draw all them black 
> is not evident -- then, example will help users a lot!
> 
>>>> I would: it's not needed.  You have rand(), you have invnorm, that's 
>>>> all you need.  Also see 'stat.inc'.
>>
>>
>>> A candidate for being added into "help rand".
>>
>>
>> I don't thinks so.  There's nothing to be gained from turning the 
>> gnuplot help into a generic maths textbook.
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> 
> Of course, but why not help users?

So long as the documentation is reasonably good (which isn't the case with clabel, I claim) and there are some demos illustrating the method, that is good enough in my mind.  The prob3.dem I sent should illustrate both of the above.

Dan