On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 12:51:33AM +0200, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > from the help message this sounds interesting, I also thought > we could have had various terminal types, and get .gp to .pdf, > to .eps, etc...., albeit it's sufficient to convert to one > vectorial format, and LyX knows how to get to the others. > Perhaps among the most useful things, is that 1) you can use this > script to render on screen through the .gp interactive capabilities, > using the same unmodified .gp script that is included in .lyx; > 2) the terminal options, but theburden is that each document > (even each use of .gp scripts) might need slightly different options... > > not really much time in these days, but this script might easily > replace the gnuplot2pdf.py one, with proper invokation in configure.py. > (-t pdf). However, I can't get at a glance the why of all of this > lines' parsing & mangling. guess it's a try to be robust w.r.t. various > different contents of the .gp script.
Thanks for taking a look, Tommaso. I CC the author of the script, Koji. He might be able to answer any specific questions whenever you have time. Scott