Re: pngcairo: suggestion for additional option

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:33, Timoth=C3=A9e Lecomte wrote:
> pl...@pi... a =C3=A9crit :
> > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:40:35 +0100, Hans-Bernhard Br=C3=B6ker =20
> > <HBB...@t-...> wrote:
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> >> gnuplot cannot  possibly write the closing tags if you didn't tell it =
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> >> you're done with writing to the file.=20
> >
> > Well it could _possibly_ write the closing tags temporarily as I sugges=
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> > and remove them later if/when further output occured. Maybe you did not=
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> > read that part of my post.
> >  =20
> I like this idea very much. This kind of "lazy file closing" would be a=20
> good time saver.

That would prevent using a pipe for output.  I do not use the TeX
terminals normally, so I don't know if piped output is relevant to these.
Certainly it is a very common case for png, svg, and postscript (eps).


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Ethan A Merritt