Re: Choosing graphics backend for documentation

[Michael Godfrey]

On 07/27/2015 05:36 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 17:14:16 +0100, Michael Godfrey wrote:

> The way I wrote the preliminary version of this, it fell back to
> gnuplot (if available), but I am not sure that this is really a
> good idea. Having copies of the Manual built with problems
> may not be helpful.

Agreed. Are you mostly referring to bug #42838 (black plot area with gnuplot 5)?

I suggested another acceptable alternative might be to build the
figures with "visible" set to true if osmesa is not available.

-- 
mike

Not really. It may be possible to do the work required for
 demonstrating the standalone modes, and even fig 15-7,
using gnuplot, but I think the time and effort could be
better spent on other plot/print enhancements.

Michael