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Starting with GMT version 3.2, all GMT documentation was
converted from Microsoft Word to LATEX files.
This step was taken for a number of reasons:
- Having all the documentation source available in
ASCII format makes it easier to access by several
GMT developers working on different platforms in
different countries.
- GMT scripts can now be included directly into the text
so that the documentation is automatically up-to-date
when scripts are modified.
- All figures are generated on the fly and included as
GMT EPS files which thus are always up-to-date.
- It is easy to convert the LATEX files to other
formats, such as HTML, SGML, PostScript, and PDF.
- The whole task of assembling the pieces, be it generating
figures or extracting text portions from the master archive under
CVS control, is automated by a simple cshell script.
- Only free software are used to maintain the GMT Documentation.
Please send email to
the GMT help list
if you find errors or inconsistencies in the documention.
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Paul Wessel
2004-10-01