Re: Choosing graphics backend for documentation

[Ben Abbott]

> On Jul 27, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 17:14:16 +0100, Michael Godfrey wrote:
>> The way I wrote the preliminary version of this, it fell back to
>> gnuplot (if available), but I am not sure that this is really a
>> good idea. Having copies of the Manual built with problems
>> may not be helpful.
> 
> Agreed. Are you mostly referring to bug #42838 (black plot area with gnuplot 
> 5)?
> 
> I suggested another acceptable alternative might be to build the
> figures with "visible" set to true if osmesa is not available.
> 
> -- 
> mike

I think that is a good idea. I’d prefer this be handled in print() so that 
printing of hidden figures work in all cases.

Ben