Re: gnuplot.texi missing postscript terminal docs

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

On Monday 21 March 2005 20:12, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> You may profit from a look into how allterm.h is built.  Or maybe
> combine the second half of your proposal with using allterm.h right away
> --- that might also solve the maintenance problem of yet another copy of
> the terminal list currently being hardwired inside doc2texi.el.

I think the most portable and maintainable way is to use the
functionality of termdoc.c to merge the terminal documentation with
gnuplot.doc.  I named the resulting file "gnuplot.tdc".  This file
is then loaded by doc2texi.el.

Thus doc2texi.el doesn't have to treat the terminals in a special
way (apart from two minor points: the terminal list and some change
in the hierarchy).

I did a quick diff on the resulting gnuplot.texi and could find two
major differences: The sequence of the terminal nodes has changed
and the cross reference detection.

I don't have too much experience with (e)lisp other than this, so it
would be a good idea to have this patch reviewed.  Is anyone in
contact with the original author of doc2texi.el?  Maybe he can even
find a better way to fix the (e)ps(la)tex terminal documention.

Juergen