Re: Gnuplot version 5 release candidate

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On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 10:47:50 AM Christoph Bersch wrote:
> > It would be nice if someone would volunteer to fix the generation
> > of HTML documentation from the *.doc or *.tex or whatever.
> > It has not worked well for a long time.  That would make it easier
> > to provide links to specific online sections of the documentation
> > rather than pointing to the whole *pdf file.
> 
> Good point, I had also thought about this. How was the HTML  
> documentation of version 4.2 created, which is still online?

It was generated with an external tool called latex2html.
But that tool ceased to be developed or supported, so far as I 
can tell, and no longer works with current LaTeX installations.
Furthermore it didn't handle figures, or at least the commands
in gnuplot's Makefile didn't handle figures.

I have tried several possible replacements. The most promising
seems to be htlatex.  Supposedly it should do what we want, but
the default mode is not very satisfactory.

> I already contacted the maintainer of gnuplotting.org, which has a  
> very nice version of the 4.6. documentation on  
> http://www.gnuplotting.org/manpage-gnuplot-4-6/. He sent me some  
> helpful command line stuff, but it still needs a lot of extra work.  
> I'll see if I can come up with a good script.

That site does look nicer than I get out of a default run of
htlatex.   It would be nicer yet if the index ran down the side
in a separate panel so that you can browse the index without
losing your current place.

	Ethan



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