Re: Bug Report and Enhanced text question

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
 > Bastian Maerkisch wrote:
 >> Ethan Merritt wrote:
 >
 >>> I don't think this is true.  Could you give a specific example?
 >>> For instance, the postscript driver itself knows little about text
 >>> layout.  That information is not available until much later, when
 >>> the output file is run through a postscript interpreter (e.g. a
 >>> PostScript printer, ghostscript). By then it is far to late
 >>> to feed any information back to the gnuplot core routines.
 >
 >> I think that this is only true for postscript. win.trm and pm.trm bot=
h
 >> need to know where to write the next piece of text and therefore need=

 >> to know the width of the text.
 >
 > Some drivers need to know the width.  The fact that the drivers exists=

 > is proof that they can get at it.
 >
 > Other drivers don't need it.  The fact that some drivers exist even
 > though they can't get at this information proves they don't strictly
 > need it.
 >

In another post yesterday Ethan already pointed out that he and I did hav=
e
a different understanding of Chris's question. I (still) agree that
information about the text layout size is not mandatory for every driver,=

but a useful and necessary information for some. So you're demonstration
wasn't really necessary.

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Bastian M=E4rkisch
Physikalisches Institut, Universit=E4t Heidelberg