Re: Gnuplot version 5 release candidate

[Christoph B. <us...@be...>]

Zitat von sfeam <sf...@us...>:

> On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 10:47:50 AM Christoph Bersch wrote:
>> 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've written a Python script doc2html.py which does the conversion  
directly from the gnuplot.doc file. It is working already, but needs  
some more tweaking. I'll upload a patch next week to sourceforge, so  
we can discuss about the formatting details.

Christoph