On 2011-07-29 13:57-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > We are only missing the answer to this question: > Why and when did PLplot come to be? > > Which I think that Geoff or Maurice could perhaps answer (a link to a > old e-mail would be fine)? Has anyone else been with the project from > the beginning?
Not me. It just sometimes feels that way. :-) I added a bit more tweaking as of revision 11826. Note that doc/docbook/src/intro.xml has some history, but it is pretty fragmentary. So I do hope that either Geoff or Maurice can come up with something more coherent. Also, don't forget about mentioning our output devices, a deficiency already noted by Jerry. There is a lot of such device so perhaps you should just use the wording on our website "PLplot device drivers support a number of different file formats for non-interactive plotting and a number of different platforms that are suitable for interactive plotting." And then add URL's for the full list of those which are http://plplot.sourceforge.net/#files and http://plplot.sourceforge.net/#interactive. Or intead of that approach you could simply say that "PLplot supports a number of device drivers. Our best two are cairo (based on the pango/cairo subset of GTK) and qt (based on Qt4). Those two device drivers provide 12 file drivers, 3 interactive drivers, two memory drivers, and 2 external drivers between them." I leave that choice or (some other choice you prefer concerning drivers) to you. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
