Re: Cleanup list of patches and bug reports on sf.net

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

On Saturday 23 October 2004 01:55 pm, Harald Harders wrote:
> I have seen some old patches on sf.net that may have to change the status.
>
> For example, the patch #982765, "Patch for AI (Adobe Illustrator) term",
> has been discussed here. Since the whole AI terminal is outdated and
> postscript is understood by Adobe Illustrator, this patch could be
> rejected and closed.
> Or patch #743667, "Epslatex term merged w/ pslatex/pstex", is superseeded
> by #1040192, "Merge post, epslatex, pslatex, pstex terminals", and could
> also be closed.

It would be nice to hear from people actually using these various
drivers.  I suppose we can deprecate ai.trm and the older forms of
the various latex terminals, but we may have to resurrect them if
there are user communities who rely on some feature of the older
terminal drivers that we didn't realize we were changing.

> And isn't the bug report #963176, "wish: only create docs for available
> terminals", solved?

Not that I know of.  In fact, I don't think there was a consensus that
this is desirable. The counter-argument was that the documentation
should be complete even if that means describing some terminal
types that are not universally configured.  After all, how would you
know your local installation is missing a terminal type if the=20
documentation doesn't even mention it?

> This patch fixes bug #1000676 =A0(Rotated multiline text misaligned).
> The alignment of rotated multiline text was correct for
> horizontal and vertical text but incorrect for other
> angles (they were handled as not rotated). This patch
> corrects this.

I don't agree that this was a bug.  It depends on what you want to
do with the text.  For me, the chief use is to squeeze more (or longer)
labels along an axis than would otherwise fit.  And in this case the=20
baseline should remain the axis itself, i.e. not rotated. IMHO it looks
really odd to have multi-line axis tic labels swing out and away from
the axis.

If you think it is useful to have the entire text block rotate as a
unit, I think we would need some new syntax or justification
option to specify it.  Can you give an example of when you
would want this?