Re: pm3d for emf terminal and point types

[Dr. J. Z. <joh...@ze...>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:26:17AM -0800, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Thursday 07 December 2006 03:42 am, Dr. Johannes Zellner wrote:
> >
> > - I just implemented pm3d for emf which was really easy, as
> > everything was already prepared.
> > - I implemented for the emf terminal the point types as suggested in
> >   term/README.
> >
> > is it ok to commit these changes to CVS?
> 
> Sound good to me.
> 
> Do you understand emf well enough to add enhanced text mode
> support as well?  I have never found decent emf documentation,
> and so have not been able to figure out how to trigger some
> of the necessary operations.
> 
> Another item on my emf wishlist is allowing UTF-8 character sets.
> If I understand the comments in the code correctly, it used to
> allow this but someone decided to revert it to handle single byte
> encodings only.  It's not clear to me whether this was intended
> to fix a known problem, or was done for some other reason.

I don't understand emf at all ;-)
But I was smart enough to understand the existing code in emf.trm.

UTF-8 would be nice IMHO as well as some sort of enhanced text.
I found

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnargdi/html/msdn_enhmeta.asp

a 13 year old techical article from microsoft. Maybe the file emfwr.cxx
from openoffice could also serve as documentation of the format. I will
very likely not have the time to do any coding myself.

Btw. I would find it quite useful, if the color sequence of the line
colors would be more similar in all terminals. Emf is quite different
from postscript and X11 for example.

-- 
Johannes