[tex-live] (no subject)

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 17:58, not disclosed wrote:
>
> TL,
>
> I'm using texlive-bin-latex-2010-4.6
>
> The tikz package included with texlive appears to be so out of date it is
> not
> functional (since gnuplot changes in 2005).
>
> tikz uses gnuplot to produce graphs.  The interface gnuplot uses changed in
> 2005. The current tikz works but the one included in opensuse is so out of
> date
> it doesn't without a hack.
>
> The fix is _very_ simple:
>
> line 288 of /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pgf/modules/pgfmoduleplot.code.tex
> needs to have the word "terminal" removed and it should then look like this:
>
> \xdef\pgf at gnuplot@head#1{set table; set output "#1.table"; set format
> "%.5f"}
>
> Any chance this could be fixed?

Ask on the SuSE list to upgrade to TeX Live 2011 (or to fix this). TeX
Live developers are not able to help you since upstream version is
working.

Mojca