On 1/23/2012 12:32 AM, Craig DeForest wrote:
On Jan 22, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Craig DeForest wrote:
Just had a first skim through the full book, thanks Chris and
everybody for putting this together. It is starting to shape up
nicely, and I notice that I still seem to owe some text.
I think that the graphics section could start with
an overview with context for the reader including
status of the various graphics options and a look
going forwards.
Also, this first version of the book is *not* going
to be the final version that could be released
as a glossy coffee table volume. Please remember
that to the PDL community, this will be the first
time that this type of documentation and text intro
is available. We'll just be sure DRAFT is in the
headers.... ;-)
--Chris
Aside from the numerous little fiddly things that I will patch up
and hack through git, I wonder if we really want to include the
PGPLOT chapter in here? I now count at least three packages
(Plplot, Gnuplot, and Prima) that have stronger support, in the
sense of having any support. All three alternatives seem to
produce prettier output, although I haven't seen a hardcopy demo
yet from Prima. And, of course, everyone's probably tired of
hearing me kvetch about the PGPLOT license and the difficulty of
supporting it on modern hardware (let alone improving it). I
sincerely hope that some other package is elevated to primer status
before the book sees real paper and binding....
Er, that didn't quite come out right... "prime status", not "primer
status" -- i.e. rather than a face-off between PGPLOT and PLPlot (and
presumably Prima and Gnuplot) with equal chapters in the primer, I
would like to see *one* plotting package placed as the default, with
smaller pointer sections to other ones. It is not particularly
important which one it is, but for new users we should have a
recommended/default one.
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