[Gretl-devel] Re: User guide plotting chapter: outdated section

Am 29.02.2024 um 12:09 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: > On 29/02/2024 12:05, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> Hi, >> >> looking at the chapter "6 Graphs and plots", it seems to me that the >> sub-section "Publication-quality graphics: advanced options" (within >> 6.1) is quite outdated. It talks of sizes and terminals and so on >> which you haven't really had to touch at least for a couple of >> years. For PDF output we have another GUI controller which does all >> that, and hand-picking gnuplot terminals is not recommended, I believe. >> >> Just adding another screenshot of the PDF controller window would be >> enough to replace that sub-section, I think. >> >> As a cosmetic aside, the picture 6.1 could be updated, the window >> decorations look 20 years old. (That's probably true for other >> screenshots as well, though...) > > In fact, there's been some discussion about having a separate > document for describing everything related to graphs and plots, since > there's so much that has been going on in that department in the past > 2-3 years, and still isn't documented adequately. > Yes, but IMHO it's still better to remove the outdated stuff without replacement in the meantime.