Re: [matplotlib-devel] Suggestions for the MatPlotLib documentation

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

Ah, thank you. For a second there, I thought there was some orphaned page
that I have never found that would have rendered my current research
project moot.


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Christoph Gohlke <cg...@uc...> wrote:

> On 8/6/2014 10:04 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> > In your wiki, you stated that you replaced the Introduction section with
> > a "Orgins of Matplotlib" section instead. However, I am completely
> > unaware of a section named that way. Can you be more specific?
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Gary Setter <gar...@ya...
> > <mailto:gar...@ya...>> wrote:
> >
> >     I uploaded a version of the documentation to MatplotlibAsHtmlHelp
> >     <http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlibashtmlhelp/> I made some
> >     changes and tried to explain why on the projects Wiki. Again thank
> >     you for all the help..
> >     Gary
> >
> >     image <http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlibashtmlhelp/>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     MatplotlibAsHtmlHelp
> >     <http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlibashtmlhelp/>
> >     MatPlotLib documentation as Html Help
> >     View on sourceforge.net
> >     <http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlibashtmlhelp/>
> >
>
> The "Orgins of Matplotlib" section in Gary's CHM file contains the
> following paragraph from the "Introduction" page at
> <http://matplotlib.org/dev/users/intro.html>:
>
> """
> When I went searching for a Python plotting package, I had several
> requirements:
>
>      Plots should look great - publication quality. One important
> requirement for me is that the text looks good (antialiased, etc.)
>      Postscript output for inclusion with TeX documents
>      Embeddable in a graphical user interface for application development
>      Code should be easy enough that I can understand it and extend it
>      Making plots should be easy
>
> Finding no package that suited me just right, I did what any
> self-respecting Python programmer would do: rolled up my sleeves and
> dived in.
> """
>
> Christoph
>
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