Re: TikZ terminal

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> 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

This sounds reasonable. Well - that's the design decision of gnuplot
team anyway :)

> 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).

(One could of course write a pure TikZ terminal producing exactly the
same output. That would be a tiny plus for compatibility, but quite
some time investment.)

Mojca