On 2010-06-06 06:51+0100 Leo wrote:

> On 2010-06-05 19:47 +0100, Hazen Babcock wrote:
>> (2) Let us know of any problems / bugs that you come across while
>> installing / using PLplot.
>
> This is trivial but may be handy.
>
> INFO-DIR-SECTION Scientific Visualization
> START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> * The PLplot Plotting Library: (plplotdoc).   The PLplot Plotting Library
> END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>
> It would be better to change the above to:
>
> INFO-DIR-SECTION Scientific Visualization
> START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> * PLplot Plotting Library: (plplotdoc).   The PLplot Plotting Library
> END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>
> i.e. remove 'The' in the menu entry this allows users to discover the
> plplot manual much easier in info.
>
> When I type 'm' in info and see no entry starts with plplot I searched
> plplot and discovered there's 'the' causing this trouble.
>

OK, after a fair bit of investigation and discussion of xslt ways of dealing
with this issue I finally decided to fix this the old-fashioned way with sed
(revision 11066).

I have regenerated the website with this and other tweaks (notably getting
rid of the individual news reports because of issues [bad links] with the SF
script that generates those).

Alan
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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).
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