Re: Compile warnings in new post/pslatex terminal code

[<dan...@ie...>]

> On Monday 14 February 2005 09:28 am, Harald Harders wrote:
>>
>> Have you had a look at the header that is produced by gnuplot when usi=
ng
>> 'standalone'? It's not that easy to write it. It automatically selects
>> the
>> same fontsize for the output as the plot uses for calculating space of
>> text. It sets the correct page size for dvips, VTeX, and pdflatex (whi=
ch
>> really is hard to do by hand for pdflatex).
>
> Isn't that just a really convoluted way to "set term pdf" ?
> Why go through latex at all if you really want a pdf plot?

Because one can use the LaTeX fonts (i.e., match the fonts in your
document) and--most importantly--use the latex typesetting to get useful
mathematical symbols in the figures.

Dan