Re: Compile warnings in new post/pslatex terminal code

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

On Monday 14 February 2005 03:29 pm, Harald Harders wrote:
> 
> set terminal epslatex header '\def\Kc{{\ensuremath K_{\mathrm{Ic}}}}'
> set xlabel '\Kc'
> 
> Everybody who knows LaTeX immediately understands what these lines do.

I doubt it.  Certainly not everyone who *uses* LaTeX knows what those
lines do.

As it stands there is essentially no way I would be able to figure
out how to use the epslatex terminal, even if it would be somewhat
nicer than plain 'set term post eps'.   I use LaTeX via a front end
(LyX) that hides all this gobbledy-gook from me, and I have no
interest in having to learn it just to include gnuplot figures.

I think it would be *far* more appropriate to provide a working set
of header files to be auto-included.  Any power users out there would
be free to edit them, and the rest of us poor novices could ignore them.



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