Re: Screenshot/Examples section before 3.0/at all ?

[Shai Ayal]

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.

Shai