From: Robert H. <en...@no...> - 2005-03-14 17:45:31
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On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 09:22 -0800, Ethan Merritt wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2005 09:02 am, Robert Hart wrote: > > 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? > > There is a new dummy driver in the current cvs version called > "estimate.trm" that is used internally to do exactly what you > want for strings using gnuplot's own enhanced text mode. > > But that is not going to get you a full TeX interpreter inside > gnuplot. so, in principle, if I added an "enhanced" mode to the pslatex driver, it would be able to give gnuplot an *estimate* of the length of a latex fragment, but actually just output the text in an unenhanced way? or is it going to cause problems if an enhanced mode terminal doesn't use enhanced mode syntax? The enhanced mode functions don't seem to be documented in term/README Rob -- Robert Hart <en...@no...> University of Nottingham This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. |