Re: Testing version of gnuplot 6.0.2

[Henri M. <he...@he...>]

On Sat, 2024-12-07 at 16:26 +0100, ASSI wrote:
> Ethan A Merritt writes:
> > I have placed a test package for release 6.0.2 in the "testing"
> > folder on SourceForge
> >     https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/testing/
> > 
> > The bug tracker has been pretty quiet lately so I hope most of the
> > issues in the 6.0
> > releases have been reported and now are fixed in 6.0.2.
> > 
> > Please report any build problems or other issues you find with the
> > test package.
> > If no problems arise I plan to use the same source files for a
> > release announcement
> > in a couple of weeks.
> 
> With the newest TeXLive (20240312 on Cygwin) gnuplot documentation
> can no
> longer be created since
> 
>     \usepackage{ucs}
>     \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> 
> produces errors in internal TeX packages down the line.  I have not
> found an invocation that circumvents this problem yet…

Could you please try simply replacing these two lines by

    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

The ucs package (which is what provides the utf8x definition file) is
basically unmaintained. Also since 2018 UTF-8 is the default encoding
in LaTeX, so none of these packages should be necessary anymore.

Cheers, Henri

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Achim.