Re: extending pstricks terminal driver

[Christoph B. <us...@be...>]

Mojca Miklavec schrieb:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Christoph Bersch wrote:
>
>> And again: it shouldn't be a developer decision which terminal the users
>> 'want' to use.
> 
> Definitely not. But it helps to get a hint. I probably needed a year
> to discover other terminals besides "latex", and I was fighting with
> getting some outdated TeX-like terminals to work properly when they
> were actually using tricks that don't work in TeX packages any more or
> were using packages that are no longer part of TeX distributions.)

Right! I think it would be nice to have something like a gnuplot-*TeX 
tutorial which aims exactly at this point. I don't know if I can find 
some time to write a quick overview on the *TeX-suited terminals, their 
advantages and disadvantages. But I could try :-)


Christoph