Re: gnuplot.texi missing postscript terminal docs

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Juergen Wieferink wrote:
> 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.

That doesn't seem to address the issue of which terminals should be
documented in the texinfo documentation.  The philosophy used to be
that online help documents only what the accompanying gnuplot binary
actually supports, but printable docs should document everything.
So far, gnuplot.texi seems to have followed the "include all" strategy,
albeit with some quirks.

You should compile the new doc2tdc.c with -DALL_TERM_DOC, I guess.

> 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.

Erm... the cross reference detection ... did what?

> 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?

His mail address mentioned inside doc2texi.el should still work, I guess.