Re: Announcement, first draft

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> http://www.gnuplot.info/faq.html
> ftp://ftp.gnuplot.info/pub/gnuplot/faq/faq.txt
> All main distribution sites in the faq/ subdirectory.
>
> The FAQ is not being maintained very actively at the moment.
> Volunteers are encouraged to contact the gnuplot developers at
> gnuplot-beta -at- lists.sourceforge.net

There is some maintenance by me and by Ethan..

And the FAQ in its beginning asks for contrib

 I'd like more

You are welcome to contribute...


>  GNUPLOT AND GIF IMAGES

Should be called "AND AMIGA"

>        Source and binary distributions for the Amiga will be available
>        on Aminet http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/ and its mirrors as
>        gfx/misc/gnuplot-4.0.0bin.lha
>        gfx/misc/gnuplot-4.0.0doc.lha
>        gfx/misc/gnuplot-4.0.0src.lha
>

Should be titled
  GNUPLOT AND MAC OS X

>        Macintosh binaries will presumably be made available from the
>        http://homepage.mac.com/gnuplot/ at some stage.



>  The list of changes is immense this time, so only the highlights
>  can be given here.  For the full details, see the NEWS file or the
>  ChangeLog.  You'll quite probably have to (re-)read large parts of
>  the documentation to learn all the details that have changed.

Add:

  See it online at
  http://www.gnuplot.info/docs/gnuplot.html#What_is_New_in_Version_4.0

>  o Windows, X11, OS/2 and GGI interactive graphical terminals now support
>    interaction with the plot window by mouse and hotkeys.

I would prefer to give credit to the historical sequence of mousing support;
please change it:

  o OS/2, X11, GGI and Windows interactive graphical terminals now support
    interaction with the plot window by mouse and hotkeys.

>  o Several new terminal drivers: EMF, PDF, SVG, GGI, epslatex.

and aqua

>  o Even more documentation misprints have been fixed, thanks to
>    Shigeharu TAKENO

Why capitalized name? And why to mention any name here (instead of credits)
-- dozen of people contributed.


>  CREDITS
>  =======
>
>  and to Johannes Zellner for the original mouse support.

Please change it to:

   and to Johannes Zellner for the help with X11 mouse and pm3d support.


(the original mouse support was on OS/2 more than 1.5 years earlier).

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PM