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Re: Screenshot/Examples section before 3.0/at all ?
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Shai Ayal |
Subject: |
Re: Screenshot/Examples section before 3.0/at all ? |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:10:03 +0200 |
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Shai Ayal <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:51 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 16-Dec-2007, Kai Habel wrote:
> >
> > | I have edited the macros.m4 file and was succeful generating a section
> for the sidebar. I have also an initial file for this new section
> (graphics.in) . But I need help with the Makefile and the automatic
> generation of the content.
> > |
> > | I think for each example we could have a script file (e.g. example1.m
> attached) with 3 sections.
> > |
> > | 1. Header - This information should be pulled and used as subsection
> header at the html site.
> > |
> > | 2. A brief description of the example. This information is also pulled
> an put on the html site.
> > |
> > | 3. The actual code.
> > |
> > | In the graphics.in file attached I have used __EXAMPLE__TITLE__,
> __EXAMPLE__DESCRIPTION__, __EXAMPLE__PNG__ as placeholders for the actual
> content.
> > |
> > | So, now we need some logic which reads a list of examples (in the
> Makefile ?) and generates the textual and graphic content. I have looked at
> the Makefile of the manual, which generates also png files.
> > |
> > | _But too have this working next week I need help!_
> > |
> > | Otherwise it will take some time for me to understand the
> Makefile-logic.
> > |
> > | Kai
> > |
> > | P.S. I have attached a patch to the macros.m4 file, an initial
> graphics.in and two exmples scripts.
> >
> > Sorry for the long delay in responding to this.
> >
> > Please take a look at http://www.octave.org/graphics.html (this is not
> > yet linked in the navigation menu). Update your copy of the web page
> > sources from CVS to see the changes I made.
> >
> > I used svg graphics with png as alternative images (I'm not sure I got
> > this part right). Perhaps some web guru could improve the appearance
> > with some better HTML/CSS.
> >
> > If you want a description of each plot, I think it could just be added
> > as an additional argument to the new __GRAPHICS_EXAMPLE__ macro that I
> > added to macros.m4.
> >
> > jwe
> >
>
> The plots are very nice, but using firefox 3.0 beta 3 I do not see the
> axes or the gridlines in both plots. In firefox 2 The x-axes
> ticklabels are cropped at the bottom.
>
> I am not sure whether the browsers are rendering the SVG or PNG, I I
> have no idea on how to fix this.
OK, both versions are displaying the SVG image -- i confirmed by
zooming in and watching the text size in the images increase.
I reported the ff3 rendering bug to mozilla
Shai