Re: TikZ terminal

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2008 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> 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.
>
> If one writes metapost.lua then one could for example call
>     set term lua metapost
> to invoke that file.

Full ACK.  Maybe "set term lua xxx" can search for the file
"gnuplot-xxx.lua" in some search path including the current
directory and the libexec directory.


> 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.

True.  Though this probably is more tricky.

> 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.

Can this be built automatically by a search for all available
gnuplot-*.lua files?


Juergen