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+[========================================================================]
+[========= List of things to be done. Plans, ideas, whatever... ========]
+[========================================================================]
+
+COMMANDS:
+=========
+
+-- (EAM) Iterate over plot commands: plot for [i=1,n] ....
+-- (EAM) Everything on command line after "load <foo>" is lost; it shouldn't be
+-- (EAM) Fill between curves for functions (already works for data)
+-- (EAM) set object <tag> {circle|ellipse}
+
+
+DOCUMENTATION:
+==============
+
+-- gnuplot.doc: Add embedded figures from the demo set for PDF and HTML docs
+
+Recently I've moved importants things from README.os2 into gnuplot.doc and
+INSTALL; those other README.{win, xli, nex} should be
+dispersed similarly. Who can do it?
+
+-- docs/old/README.3d
+-- docs/old/README.fit
+ These should be be edited and pasted into gnuplot.doc and then removed.
+
+
+TERMINALS:
+==========
+
+Amiga:
+ -- update its docs from docs/old/README.ami, then delete this file
+
+Emx:
+ -- update its docs from docs/old/README.emx, then delete this file
+
+(g)pic:
+ -- update its docs from docs/old/README.pic, then delete this file
+
+Metafont:
+ -- update its docs from docs/old/README.mf, then delete this file
+
+NeXTstep:
+ -- update its docs from docs/old/README.nex, then delete this file
+
+Pstricks:
+ -- Patch 559611 color + variable pointsize in pstricks
+ Can somebody comment on this?
+
+{eps|ps}latex:
+ -- none of the latex terminal variants support pattern-fill, but
+ they return no error if you try it.
+
+Windows:
+ -- update its docs from docs/old/README.win, then delete this file
+ -- windows driver does not report font size to windows.trm, thus
+ character widht and height are quite useless numbers
+ -- update wgnuplot menus
+ -- repair the linetype bug in wgraph.c --- crash for
+ set style fill solid border
+ plot [-2.5:4.5] 100/(1.0+x*x) with boxes lt -1
+ or
+ set style fill solid noborder
+ plot [-2.5:4.5] 100/(1.0+x*x) with boxes lt -1
+ or
+ set style fill empty
+ plot [-2.5:4.5] 100/(1.0+x*x) with boxes lt -1
+ -- windows "Pause -1": it works very strange if you press <enter> while
+ having the mouse cursor out of the graph window. Mainly users running
+ demos complain about this. This bug is associated to BUG 561418
+ "(MS Windows) 100% CPU Usage during pause", and to HBB 20001217's note
+ about WaitMessage(); in wpause.c.
+
+TERMINALS, GENERAL COMMENTS:
+============================
+
+-- verify that terminals don't reset options (I've checked a lot, but
+should be tested again)
+
+-- verify that color and pointtype sequence is unified, alias similar line and
+point type sequences for the main terminal drivers
+
+
+GNUPLOT TOOLS LIBRARY:
+======================
+
+Make a library (e.g. usr/local/gnuplot/scripts/, .../gnuplot/bin) of
+(a) gnuplot scripts, and (b) shell scripts relevant for gnuplot:
+
+-- enclose script "gpsavediff" that diff's output of gnuplot's "save" command
+and default setup after "reset"
+
+-- move pm3d/contrib/* files into the proposed gnuplot library, then remove
+pm3d/contrib and pm3d/ from cvs
+
+I.e., the last point is the main question: where to put pm3d/contrib/* files?
+
+Or put them to gnuplot web page?
+
+
+INSTALLATION --- LINUX:
+=======================
+
+-- add .spec file and a 'make' target to create RPM file?
+ [HBB: no.]
+
+
+INSTALLATION --- VMS:
+=====================
+
+-- bring configure.vms in sync with current configure.in
+
+
+[========================================================================]
+[========================================================================]
+[========================================================================]
+
+Note: use
+ www.sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot
+=> "Feature request" for feature requests.
+
+
+Projects, in no particular order:
+
+- revise border command to use keywords
+- put minor tics into demo file
+
+longer term
+
+- break it into four layers:
+ : low level graphics (some of term.c)
+ : plotting code, reading the setshow.h global variables
+ : parsing code - read a string, and parse and execute it
+ : front end, interact with terminal / gui
+ basically, gplotlib is layer 2, and the traditional gnuplot is
+ layer 4, which is little more than a small client of layer 3.
+ Terminal option lines are table driven,
+ so that even though the options are defined by layer 1, the
+ actual parsing is implemented in level 3
+
+Lars' list
+
+- much-requested feature: read text/commands from data files
+- provide library of replacement functions instead of stdfn.c
+- fully switch to automake [docs left to do, won't do lisp]
+- completely rewrite the parser. Use yacc/bison if possible.
+- maybe rewrite the scanner in lex? The benefits are not so obvious,
+ because the current scanner is extremely simple. This is probably
+ only worthwhile if the parser is rewritten at the same time.
+- maybe use PD hash code for table-lookup (SNIPPETS code). Tables for
+ builtin and user functions, variables, commands. What else? aliases
+- [Robert S. Maier] rewrite term.c to provide an interface to GNU plotutils
+- standardise float/double comparisons around the suggestion in the
+ comp.lang.c FAQ (What's a good way to check for "close enough"
+ floating-point equality?) and symbolic constants from standard header files.
+ LOADS of errors throughout the code, especially in graphics.c
+- autogenerate term.h from config file in text format and/or configure?
+- parse "~" in filenames as $HOME
+ [PARTIALLY DONE] works for all cmds now; plot key shows "~" instead
+ of path (-> fix); does not accept "~" and "~user". Maybe implement
+ former, latter requires reading passwd file (-> not!)
+- general expansion of user defined and environment vars in
+ labels?
+- [Lucas] fix axis ranges, overwritten labels in demos
+- write or organise a portable version of snprintf(3) with a copyright
+ compatible with the gnuplot copyright (ie. no GPL) (Apache?)
+- add more maintainer checks (eg. file permissions)
+- better lisp/ files integration (Makefile target to import Bruce's
+ latest version). How to handle duplicates?
+- better documentation format; get rid of the doc2xxx utils
+ [SGML. SGML. SGML]
+- tilde and variable expansion to be done by
+ gp_fopen() - to be implemented
+- fix bug which prints "DI,1DI,0" in the upper left corner of the plot when
+ in pcl5 mode and printing to an HP Laserjet 4+ (J. Breeding, bug-gnuplot)
+ [HBB: reason known, but proper workaround path unclear]
+
+HBB:
+[Optional:] See if 16-bit compilations can be made to work again.
+
+Ethan's List:
+- transparency (alpha channel) for fill areas and images
+- separate out the handling of junk, NaN, Inf, and missing data entries
+- 2D plot styles should accept color info from an extra input column
+- you should be able to set a default style for arrows and labels
+- isosurfaces (3D contour of 4D data)
+
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