Re: Choosing graphics backend for documentation

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/16/2015 04:45 PM, Michael Godfrey wrote:
> On 08/16/2015 10:21 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 16:11:05 -0400, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > > >  Does the attached patch look ok?
> > Does it work for you? I think all that's missing is another error in
> > case gnuplot is not available (which is now possible).
> >
> > Something like
> >
> >   function set_graphics_toolkit ()
> >     if (isempty (available_graphics_toolkits ()))
> >       error ("no graphics toolkit available for plotting");
> >     elseif (! strcmp ("gnuplot", graphics_toolkit ()) ...
> >        &&  ! octave_config_info ().features.OSMESA)
> >       if (! any (strcmp ("gnuplot", available_graphics_toolkits ())))
> >         error ("no graphics toolkit available for offscreen plotting");
> >       else
> >         graphics_toolkit ("gnuplot");
> >       endif
> >     endif
> >   endfunction
> >
> > look ok?
> >
> > -- mike
> If gnuplot is used not all figures can be drawn.  Is this useful?

What figures can't be drawn?

Dan