Re: gnuplot documentation and picins

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

On Monday 06 April 2009 14:05:57 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build gnuplot documentation (with "make pdf"), but it
> requires a package picins.sty that has been removed from TeX Live a
> while ago due to not-free-enough licence. As far as I could see the
> package has not been used at all: removing the line
> "\usepackage{picins}" didn't do any harm at all and the documentation
> has been built normally (though I didn't inspect the resulting PDF in
> details).

I am using texlive, and for me the picins.sty file works fine.
It is still easily available, even if it isn't bundled with texlive.

> Would it make sense to remove that line or do something else to
> prevent problems? (Maybe some developers are still using tetex and
> don't experience the problem, but sooner or later it will strike
> back.)

It is needed in order to include figures in the pdf documentation.
That is the "make pdffigures" target.

I have tried another package as a replacement (sorry, can't rememeber
which one it was) but the results were not very satisfactory.
But if you can suggest other packages to try, I am willing.

	Ethan