Re: Choosing graphics backend for documentation

[Ben Abbott]

> On Aug 17, 2015, at 1:17 AM, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 08/16/2015 07:19 PM, Michael Godfrey wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 08/16/2015 10:59 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>> What figures can't be drawn?
>>> 
>>> Dan
>> Besides Fig. 15-7, the Plotting section will need extensive rewrite to
>> document a system with gnuplot only.
> 
> Figure 15.7: Example of inclusion of text with use of -dpdflatexstandalone
> 
> pdflatexstandalone was working for me.  I just checked this bug report:
> 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44187
> 
> and see that Ben updated some things.  (I don't always get email for followup 
> savannah comments.)  I will take a look at his changes sometime later this 
> week when I'm free, but I don't know the Mac OS flavor of unix so can't debug 
> anything Apple related.
> 
> Dan
> 

Hi Dan,

I’m able to build on Mac OS X again! Several patches are needed (which makes 
development clumsy since we may not want all of them pushed). In any event, I’m 
happy to test a changeset for pdflatexstandalone.

Ben