Re: extending pstricks terminal driver

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

On Monday 08 December 2008 01:25:58 Juergen Wieferink wrote:
> > > Fixing PSTricks terminal still makes sense if there are minor patches.
> > > For the rest, I would claim that TikZ should become *the* (La)TeX
> > > terminal of the future.
> >
> > As far as im in it, one of the ideas behind gnuplot is to be as portable
> > as possible and to support a great variety of different output formats.
> > So there will hardly ever be a discussion of favoring one format over
> > another from the developer side. This choice is up to the user!
> 
> I think so, too.  But nevertheless the TikZ terminal seems quite
> promising.
> 
> > I think you should ask Peter why he did not contact the gnuplot
> > developer for including his terminal. Maybe its an issue with the
> > license?! (lua terminal is under GPL license)
> 
> Peter has kindly uploaded his terminal to the patches tracker recently:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2183264&group_id=2055&atid=302055
> 
> He writes that he has no objections in changing the license.

I am afraid that I have no time to check out lua + TikZ myself,
but I am  certainly open to adding this new driver to CVS if multiple
people agree that it is a useful addition, and if Peter confirms that
we can include it under the gnuplot license.

Do you think it is ready for inclusion in CVS?

Does the ./configure script need to be modified for it (that is, 
should it try to autodetect lya and/or TikZ)?


 
> > Just to mention a possible drawbacks of pure TeX terminals:
> > While working on the PSTricks terminal, I noticed that the pm3d support
> > is very limited as the large number of polygons needed for the plot
> > require a lot of TeX main memory. As TikZ is also TeX based, it could be
> > that you run into similar problems also with this terminal.
> 
> TikZ is not really a pure TeX based solution.  As I understand
> things it works mostly like PSTricks but with more than one back
> end, i.e. PS as well as PDF.  Nevertheless I ran into exceeding
> memory when there were three images in TeX memory at the same time.
> 
> 
> Juergen
> 
> 
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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742