Re: Current wgnuplot.hlp is obsolate and cannot be opened in windows vista

[<pl...@pi...>]

Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 pl...@pi... wrote:
> 
>> the linux textinfo help has also been criticised recently and I find it
>> pretty intractable to use.
>>
>> Would this be an opportunity to convert the help to one unified,
>> cross-platform format?
>>
>> One obvious possibility is HTML. Although it lacks the nice indexing a
>> nd cross referencing facilities of winhelp, it would allow
>> linux/macOS/win* plus web documentation in one hit. This would
>> presumably be plus for maintainability.
> 
> Why would HTML necessarily lack nice indexing and
> cross-referencing?
> 
> Allin Cottrell
> 
> 
No, clearly it could be hand coded or some javascript cobbles from
somewhere. What I meant is that winhelp has built-in index and search
facility.

There is already an html version of the gnuplot built-in help command
http://amath.colorado.edu/computing/software/man/gnuplot.html#2635

so I suppose the browser text search provides a rudimentary search
ability although it's not as useful as winhelp topics can be in finding
which match relates to what you are looking for.

Maybe the help itself could be more helpful. I've spend quite some time
this evening trying to plot a sine wave [0:100] but it comes out really
clunky and distorted. I've been unable to suss out how to set the
interval to something more than useful than four points per cycle.

That is more a criticism of the content than the format though.