> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:53 PM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think it means that Darren, who did most of the heavy lifting for > > these features, was getting tired of the endless line of additional > > things TeX users wanted to do and the difficulties supporting these > > across all platforms (eg MikTex on Windows) and drew a line in the > > sand saying "I'll add this stuff but if you report problems I may not > > stay up all night trying to fix them".
> From: Darren Dale [mailto:dsdal...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:55 AM > That is a fair explanation. Adding arbitrary lines to the latex > preamble adds an incredible amount of flexibility if you are a user, > and it provides plenty of rope with which to hang yourself if you are > a developer (answering questions/problems related to people writing > bad python code, misconfigured latex installations, and bad latex > code!). At the time, we had finally shaped the latex backend into > something that worked across platforms (and different versions of > latex installations), plus I was also finishing up grad school and > starting a new job, so I had reservations about even adding this > feature to the library. But people really wanted it so we compromised. Compromised or not, it's a great feature and I'm *really* happy it made it was included! Thanks for all of the effort. -Paul H. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
