Re: Files BUGS and README.1ST

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Saturday 09 October 2004 08:08 am, Harald Harders wrote:
>  *) Arrows and labels are not clipped (2D and 3D).
>
> I often use labels and arrows with the intention to generate things
> outside the plot margins, for example special axis labels (according to
> the DIN style for diagrams). If they were clipped I would not be able to
> do so anymore. Thus, I think it is not a bug and should be removed from
> BUGS.

That is a good point.  But the bug is real.  If you use zoom on a plot
containing vectors you will see all sorts of garbage on the screen as the
individual vectors span the plot margins.  Perhaps the rule should be to
clip auto-generated arrows (i.e. 'plot with vectors') but not arrows 
requested individually by the user.

> In README.1ST, it is stated that only old versions of gd generate gif
> files. If I remember correctly, the current gd version includes gif
> support again. Shoudn't README.1ST be updated accordingly?

Eventually, yes.  That new libgd version has not yet made it into general
distribution, and it has some other problems with regard to gnuplot. 
Tom Boutell has promised to include additional gnuplot fixes in the next
release (2.0.29), but I don't know when that will happen.