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

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

On Saturday 07 February 2009, pl...@pi... wrote:
> 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.

What's wrong with the PDF help?
It has figures, cross-indexing, an index, etc,
generated from TeX.  In principle one can similarly generate HTML docs
from the same TeX document, but I have not been able to find a very 
good latex->html convertor.  There are several old projects, but none
of them seems to be maintained or up to date.

> 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.

set samples <some-large-number>

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Ethan A Merritt