Re: gnuplot 4.2 and epslatex

On 11 Apr., 18:54, "Dan" <lueck...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
However, the statements I've read here about incomprehensable
error messages from LaTeX are hard to understand. The error
message I get testing a simple example script is:

! Package color not loaded in conjunction with terminal option
`colourtext'.

which seems pretty clear to me. I would be curious to see a
minimal example that produces an incomprehensible message.

obviously, the spurios error messages only occur when using pdflatex,
here my minimalistic example session showing the difference:

Martin@VAION ~/DiplomaThesis/gtest $ cat test.tex
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\input{testplot}
\end{document}

Martin@VAION ~/DiplomaThesis/gtest $ cat testplot.gp
set term epslatex
set output "testplot.tex"
plot x
set output

Martin@VAION ~/DiplomaThesis/gtest $ gnuplot --version
gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 0

Martin@VAION ~/DiplomaThesis/gtest $ gnuplot testplot.gp

Martin@VAION ~/DiplomaThesis/gtest $ latex test.tex
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
file:line:error style messages enabled.
%&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/report.cls
Document Class: report 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def))) (./test.aux) (./
testplot.tex

../testplot.tex:93: Package color not loaded in conjunction with
terminal option
`colourtext'.

See the gnuplot documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

l.93 \gplbacktext

?

Martin@VAION ~/DiplomaThesis/gtest
$ epstopdf testplot.eps

Martin@VAION ~/DiplomaThesis/gtest
$ pdflatex test
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
file:line:error style messages enabled.
%&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar,
norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish,
swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/report.cls
Document Class: report 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/pdftex.def))) (./test.aux)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26)
)
loading : Context Support Macros / PDF (2004.03.26)
) (./testplot.tex
../testplot.tex:93: Undefined control sequence.
\color ...vevmode \csname fi\endcsname }\@ldc@l@r

l.93 \gplbacktext

?

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