width of text in latex terminals

[Robert H. <en...@no...>]

Is there any plans to improve the method of estimating the width of text
strings for pslatex plots?

e.g something like:
set format y '[r]{%.0t$\times$10$^{%+03T}$}'
ends up with a huge gap between the border of the plot and yaxis label
because gnuplot assumes the tic labels are much bigger than the actually
are.

I think the only real way of getting the length of a text string would
be to run it through LaTeX, and that isn't really feasible, but I think
a much better estimate of the length of the string could be got by
neglecting "{}$^_" and counting "\somecommand" as one character (i.e.
assuming it produces a single symbol).

Is this something that could fit into the existing enhanced text support
(used by other terminals). Or would the terminal drivers need to be
extended with an optional "strlen" function?

Rob



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Robert Hart <en...@no...>
University of Nottingham


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