Re: [Gnuplot-info] Suggestion

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

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, ccharron1 wrote:

> About the language, I'm thinking Germa, French, Spanish ... Gui translation.

Which of the GUIs would you want translated?  We have at least two
integrated in the source tree (Windows and OS/2), and a couple of external
ones, most of which have fallen into disrepair though.

As it is, the Windows GUI texts, e.g., come in two parts:  the main menu
is actually covered by the wgnuplot.mnu file, which is simple editable
text.  It shouldn't be too hard to change that.  All the other menus (like
the Windows system menu and the context menus) are generated on-the-fly,
by the code, and the names used by those are currently hardwired.

> You don't seem to appreciate Excel, 

Right.

But that's not actually my main point here.  That is whether it makes
sense for *us* to try to parse a proprietary file format like Excel's.  I
think it doesn't.  Ultimately only Excels knows how to parse its files, so
it's Excel's responsibility to export to something usable by the rest of
the world.

[And please don't blindly quote full messages if you're not going to refer
to their content.  Just because that's Outlook's default doesn't mean it's
sensible behaviour.]

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.