On 2013-05-02 11:42-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I will now move on to updating the DocBook API documentation for the > plshade* and pllegend arguments, and also propagating the changed > width arguments for those routines for the remaining swig-related languages > (Java, Lua, and Octave) I committed to support through this change.
All DONE as of revision 12331. Default build has now been tested with the "test_noninteractive" target. So here are the language bindings which are currently enabled for that default build: Language Bindings: ENABLE_f77: OFF ENABLE_f95: ON ENABLE_cxx: OFF ENABLE_java: ON ENABLE_python: ON ENABLE_octave: ON ENABLE_tcl: ON ENABLE_itcl: ON ENABLE_tk: ON ENABLE_itk: ON ENABLE_pdl: OFF ENABLE_wxwidgets: ON ENABLE_ada: OFF ENABLE_d: OFF ENABLE_ocaml: ON ENABLE_lua: ON ENABLE_qt: ON ENABLE_pyqt4: ON f77 should remain OFF and should soon be removed. pdl is external and that depends on how soon Doug Hunt will be able to adjust his perl/pdl bindings for PLplot for this plshade* and pllegend C API change. I encourage others here to deal with propagation of these C API changes to the bindings and examples of the remaining languages that are still disabled by default above, i.e., Ada, C++, and D. The results from the test_diff_psc target (which is invoked along with other tests from the test_noninteractive target) shows all is well for the above enabled languages except for example 16 where the PostScript results for all language bindigns differred from the corresponding C results. In that case, I also did a special local test where the plcolorbar call was temporarily dropped from C example 16, and that gave complete consistency with all other languages for that example _except_ (Hez should take note of this) for the OCaml example 16 which apparently needs non-plcolorbar work to bring it into consistency with the C example 16 without plcolorbar calls. So the conclusion from this experiment is that stabilization of the plcolorbar API and propagation of it to all the language bindings and example 16 will solve all these example 16 issues other than the non-plcolorbar issue noted above for OCaml example 16. If Hez gives his agreement to my proposed plcolorbar API change, then I can get that plcolorbar propagation process started (including propagation to example 16) for the languages whose bindings are generated by swig. And I am willing to go through that process again if he implements his further proposed API change. I am also waiting for Andrew's answer to my question about dropping our support for Numeric. But otherwise, I am done with my current PLplot contributions, and I am planning to go back tomorrow to my other active project which is writing up some interesting scientific results concerning time ephemerides which I have demonstrated with the timeephem/te_gen software. <off-topic> The summary there is clock rates have a well-known general relativistic correction which te_gen calculates. That correction depends on the local gravitational field which is dominated by the effects of the masses of the Sun, Moon, and planets and the distances of those objects from the Earth as a function of time. But asteroids (which are rather low-mass solar system objects compared to planets) also have a very small effect on the gravitational field near the Earth, and it turns out that effect is on the edge of detectability for the most accurate clocks! I think it is really cool that clocks have been developed with such a high degree of accuracy which is why I am sharing this result with you. </off-topic> I will quickly bring this post back to PLplot topics again by saying all my figures for that paper have used pllegend quite successfully and have been generated with the pdfcairo device. Such PDF figures can be directly included into scientific papers using the latex graphicx package and the pdflatex command that directly produces a PDF version of the paper. The resulting figures in that PDF version of the paper look really sharp compared to the somewhat more blurry results you get if you use PLplot to generate figures with the epscairo (or any other PostScript) device and attempt to include those PostScript results in the paper using either the latex or pdflatex commands. So in sum, use PDF figures (generated with pdfcairo), the latex graphicx package, and the pdflatex command to generate PDF documents with absolutely the best-looking embedded graphics. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). 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