Re: TikZ terminal

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

On Monday 22 December 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> here are a few suggestions for the new TikZ terminal:
> 
> 1.) I would rename gnuplot.lua into tikz.lua or gnuplot-tikz.lua. The
> terminal lua is generic, but gnuplot.lua is TikZ-specific.
> 
> 2.) I would require calling
>    set term tikz
> or
>    set term lua tikz
> and not
>    set term lua
> 
> Lua is a generic driver and would not tell anything to the user that
> wants to plot something in TeX.

How about using a scheme similar to the cairo-based terminals
pdfcairo and pngcairo.  The current terminal would have the full name
tikzlua, and the short form "tikz" would work unless/until someone 
writes a pure tikz terminal that doesn't use lua (just as the old
pdf and png terminals don't use cairo).



> If one writes metapost.lua then one could for example call
>     set term lua metapost
> to invoke that file.
> 
> 3.) I agree that the terminal should return a list of values chosen
> for the terminal
> 
> 4.) Help should also be returned via
>    help term tikz
> 
> Now set term lua help returns something useful, but help term tikz
> should be more informative as well.
> 
> 5.) Maybe there could be
>    gnuplot.lua
> that has a list of available terminals, for example a list containing
> "tikz" terminal with both terminal name and filename that needs to be
> included to make that terminal work properly.
> 
> Mojca (with more comments to come)
> 
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Ethan A Merritt
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University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742