Re: adding picins.sty to docs/

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

On Sunday, 11 September 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> Would it be possible to put picins.sty to docs/, so that documentation
> (pdffigures) will at least compile without problems?

The idea was that we provide by default a simple target "make pdf"
that does not require any local customization of the TeX environment
or figure-generation tools.  That should be sufficient for most
development purposes.  The more complex target "make pdffigures"
is used to generate a pdf verion of the manual, with figures, that
is included in the distribution package.  So the end user gets a copy
of gnuplot.pdf that includes figures, and need not have TeX installed
at all.

On the other hand, it's not that hard to regenerate a copy of the
pdf+figures from the CVS source yourself.   It is true that you may
have to tweak the local TeX environment to successfully use the
"make pdffigures" target rather than "make pdf".  But you clearly have
far more TeX experience than I do, so it seems surprising that you
would have difficulty installing one extra *.sty file on your system.

	cheers,

		Ethan