Re: Key layout and exterior X window patches

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

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 10:01 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>  Syntax:
>        set label {<tag>} {"<label text>"} {at <position>}
>
> Either way is fine with me.  Which do list members prefer?

Document it as requiring "at", but for backwards-compatibility
it must also accept the old syntax.

> > cd tutorial; make clean; make
> >
> > set key 15,-10
> >         ^
> > "eg3.plt", line 7: unknown key option
>
> Oh yeah, I see... eg6.plt (tutorial.tex), bivariat.dem and electron.dem
> also have this.  I will fix these if the list thinks "at" should be
> required.

Yes, if the new syntax requires "at" then the tutorial and the demos
should use it.  But changing the demos will not magically change people's
existing scripts, so the code still must accept the at-less form also.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742