Re: [Plplot-devel] RE: [Plplot-general] PLplot-5.1.0 is released!

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin writes:
>  > 7 months and 500+ CVS commits after PLplot-5.0.4 it is time for another
>  > stable release of this publication-quality scientific plotting package.
>  > [...]
>  > For details see the full release announcement at
>  > http://plplot.sourceforge.net/announce-plplot-5.1.0.html.
>
> Thanks Alan, that was splendidly prepared!

I have to give credit to the quanta web development tool
(http://quanta.sourceforge.net/) for that.  I had heard about it before, but
yesterday when I decided to go with an html announcement, I looked at quanta
seriously for the very first time.  I found I could start using it right
away because it was already part of Debian. One of the big advantages is
quanta produces human-readable html, but there are lots of labor-saving GUI
clicks to insert useful HTML patterns into the edit window where you are
forming that html. And you can immediately see the consequences of your
changes by clicking on a preview window.  Anyhow, I am completely sold; it
made it quite easy to convert an ascii form of the announcement to html with
no prior quanta experience and quite limited html experience.

Alan