[Gretl-devel] Re: User guide plotting chapter: outdated section

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 6.1) is quite outdated.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.