Re: misc for readmes

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

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Petr Mikulik wrote:

> Here are some my observations (I've just read few INSTALL and README*,
> but no time to edit it today):
> 
> ***
> README.1ST
> 
> Text:
> generate and convert the images at the same time, as in this example:
>         set terminal png medium font LucidaSansDemiBold
>         set output '| convert png:- image.gif'
> 
> 
> I think it should be like
>     set term png font arial
> or
>     set term png medium
> but not both together

Right.  Will change that.

>     set term png font arial
>     set term png medium
> => it does not revert to medium; someone can have a look?

Ouch.  But it should be trivial to fix.  I'll have 'set term medium'
and friends turn off the TTF font option.

> My old complaint:
> I always find the "Note 3" completely useless and vote for removing it.

That would be very unfriendly to the author of gnuplot-mode.  We can't
just swallow a copy of his package into ours without explaining why that
copy is incomplete.

> (I don't consider myself to be an ordinary user of gnuplot but never met
> gnuplot-mode; and I wonder how gnuplot 4.0 is affected by some files
> not being present from this mode...)

Frankly, whether or not anyone of *us* is using that package is completely
irrelevant.  gnuplot-mode is a user-interface to gnuplot that people are
using (there's been the occasional question about it, including the one
which triggered this weekends' rediscovery of the Windows' !-command 
problem), and they have the right to know how the stuff in the 'lisp'
directory relates to the separate package they may have installed.

> There is a "gnuplot reference card" in docs/ -- but untouched since 1998.
> Could somebody edit it a bit (at least like set no => unset)?

Will do.

> Also, in lisp/gpelcard.tex, looks like yet another gp card -- but this is
> a bit wrong and outdated like here:
> 
> \item[Using pm3d] \hfill \\
>   All features of the pm3d patch to \textsc{gnuplot} should be
>   available when using gnuplot-mode.  One particularly useful feature
>   of pm3d is the ability to push a cursor position into the
>   clipboard.  This is done by double-clicking \texttt{mouse-1} in the
>   plot window, then doing \texttt{M-x yank-clipboard-selection}
>   (usually bound to \texttt{mouse-2}) in the gnuplot script buffer.
> 
> ... author obviously means Using mouse, and it's no more a patch.
> 
> How is this ref card related to docs/ one?

It's an indepentend work.  Meant to explain gnuplot-mode, not gnuplot
itself.  

> To be merged, deleted, ...?

To be kept (optionally updated slightly).


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