Re: gnuplot manual misprint (no.35)

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011, Bastian Märkisch wrote:
> Thanks for noticing. Some of your observations were caused by a specific 
> change made by me. I disabled some html anchors in gnuplot.doc, like this:
> 
> ^ <a name="start-up"></a>
> 
> I thought they were leftovers from times when the (real) HTML 
> documentation was generated directly from gnuplot.doc.
> It turns out that really doc2tex(!) interprets them.

It interprets them as an internal link, which mean they could be replaced
by "see `start-up`"    (NB: The word "see" is required).

The other doc2XXX routines ignore lines starting with '^'.

But some of them are nonsense anyhow. They should be deleted.
For example:
^ <a name="arrowtype"></a>
^ <a name="arrowwidth"></a>

There are no entries for arrowtype or arrowwidth, so these links are dead.

	Ethan


> 
> In addition to the anchor definitions you have found
> 
>    "start-up", "Time/Date data", "Time/date", "positive", "negative"
> 
> the following have also been removed by me:
> 
>    "save set", "set style <style>", "arrowtype", "arrowwidth"
> 
> We could easily put those definitions back in, but I doubt that this is 
> the best solution. Any propositions?
> 
> I will look at doc2* to find out what other surprises there are.
> 
> Bastian
> 
> 
> Am 22.02.2011 12:08, schrieb Shigeharu TAKENO:
> > shige 02/22 2011
> > ----------------
> >
> > In docs/gnuplot.doc of current CVS version
> >
> >   C RCS $Id: gnuplot.doc,v 1.651 2011/02/21 17:58:39 markisch Exp $
> >
> > I found the following points:
> >
> > 1) they may not be referenced by the .tex document translated by
> >    doc2tex (`start-up`, `positive`, `negative`, `Time/date`, and
> >    `Seeking-assistance`)
> > 2) they may be misprints (strings ->  string, stdout ->  string,
> >    interpolation ->  interpolate)
> > 3) they may not be translated to tabular lines correctly in win
> >    help (for rand)
> >
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