Re: pslatex code contaminating the gnuplot core

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> By the way, in trying to build gnuplot without the postscript
> terminal driver I discovered that the recent commingling of
> postscript/pslatex/epslatex has made this impossible.
> 
> In particular I object to the following contamination of core
> routines with terminal-specific code.  If we need a new terminal
> entry for this, then so be it. But having the core code writing
> this garbage is just really really ugly.

Oo, yes.  Don't start this sort of thing.  There must be a good solution to this inside the terminal 
driver, e.g., static variables for remembering when to put this string in the LaTeX file.  Harald?

> -    /* Print \includegraphics here when using back option for text */
> -    if (term->name=="epslatex" && gpoutfile)
> -       fprintf(gpoutfile, "    \\put(0,0){\\includegraphics{%s}}%%\n",
> -               pslatex_auxname);

Dan