Re[2]: [Gnuplot-bugs] Gnuplot 4.0 Win32 crashes on plot from file

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Uwe Zimmermann wrote:


> >>   set datafile separator
> >> 
> >> is not listed in the help, 
> 
> HBB> Not listed *where* in "the help"?  And why should it have appeared right
> HBB> there?
> 
> 
> in the index between "datafile matrix" and "datafile smooth"  or
> between "commands set contour" and "commands set decimalsign".

For the record: that's the index of the Win32 wgnuplot.hlp file, right?

> I have to admit upon closer inspection that it _is_ indeed listed
> between "set datafile missing" and "set date specifiers", I wonder why
> the index is this much cluttered with similar entries at different
> positions...?

I guess this is caused by the gnuplot.doc not containing these nodes in
alphabetically sorted order, or by some slight mistake in the structure of
node header lines in gnuplot.doc, the file all the various editions of the
documentation are generated from.

I don't fully understand how the Index of the .hlp is generated from the 
RTF file, which in turn is generated from gnuplot.doc, so it's hard to 
see what's wrong there.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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