On 09-Mar-04, 13:58 (CST), James Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : rlplot
> Version : x.y.z
> Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.example.org/
> * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
You're supposed to actually fill in the values above. (Ah, you've
filled them in down below, but the really should be above, not
part of the long description.)
> Description : RLPlot is is a plotting program to create high quality
> graphs from data.
Don't repeat the name in the short description, which allows you to
avoid the passive voice, and the duplicated "is is". If you're not going
to generate the graphs from data, what *do* you generate them from?
Perhaps this:
Description: generate high quality graphs
> (Include the long description here.)
You're supposed to delete this line.
>
> RLPlot is is a plotting program to create high quality graphs from data.
> The Graphs are displayed as you get them (Wysiwyg). It supports all
> major scientific graphing formats including bar charts, error bars and
> scatter plots.
"Graphs" shouldn't be capitalized in the second sentence. OTOH,
"WYSIWYG" should be all caps. I'm not sure what "displayed as you get
them" means, though: it could mean that RLPlot can read a live data
stream, and update in real time?
It would be useful to know what the output format is - Postscript, on
the X display, both?
Regards,
Steve
--
Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
