Re: extending pstricks terminal driver

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

I've uploaded a patchset to SourceForge that places the current contents
of your tarball into .../term/lua/ and .../term/,
and modifies thethe autoconf scripts to configure and install with no
additional intervention.

Comments:

- ./configure currently installs gnuplot-lua-tikz.sty to
/usr/local/share/gnuplot/<version>/ but of course TeX doesn't know to look
for it there.  Where is the proper place to install this style file?

- Tested using TeXLive:  
  pdflatex works great. dvi output is still useless. 

- dvips partially works, and may be fixable. It places 90% of the plot
  off the bottom of the page, and then clips it so you can't recover
  even by editing the BoundingBox.

- Tested using texmf:
  Works fine using pdflatex except that I had to hunt for a copy of
  ifxetex.sty

- I have not touched the code in lua.trm, but it needs a pass to remove
  these warnings:
  ../term/lua.trm:132: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
  ../term/lua.trm:190: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
  ../term/lua.trm:532: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘luaL_openlibs’
  ../term/lua.trm:533: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘luaopen_debug’
  ../term/lua.trm:561: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
  ../term/lua.trm:1023: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
  ../term/lua.trm:125: warning: ‘LUA_stack_dump’ defined but not used

- set term lua should accept at least the following options:
    size XX, YY    # units of inches or cm
    dashed/solid
    color/monochrome
  and it needs to echo back the options string to the user to confirm it
  was accepted

But that's all minor stuff, and can be fixed up after the code goes into
cvs.

What do you think - should the whole lot go into cvs more or less
immediately?


-- 
Ethan A Merritt