Re: links to gnuplot online documentation

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

On Sunday 28 December 2008, Ralf Juengling wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am working on a language interface for gnuplot
> which is pretty close to the gnuplot plotting command
> language. For instance, for every plotting style my
> interface has a corresponding function for adding
> a line to a graph/plot.
> 
> I want to take advantage of this close correspondence
> and refer to the gnuplot online documentation in the
> help texts for my interface. I see that the online
> documentation for the current development version
> has anchors to the plotting styles, like
> 
> http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_4.3/gnuplot.html#lines.
> 
> Will this url eventually be
> 
> http://www.gnuplot.info/docs/gnuplot.html#lines
> 
> ? The current link to plotting style 'lines' is
> 
> http://www.gnuplot.info/docs/node254.html
> 
> which does not look like a stable url. Are there plans
> for more stable and systematic urls to the gnuplot
> online documentation?


The html documentation is created automatically from the
TeX documentation. At least two paths exist to do this,
latex2html and "makeinfo -html".  Both have some problems,
and latex2html is no longer being actively maintained that
I know of.  So it's kind of out of our control.

If you are aware of some other path to generate html pages
from a *.tex document or perhaps from a *.pdf document,
please speak up!


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742