Re: grouping available terminals together

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 09 February 2007 13:22, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>=20
> OK, I've look at test in as many terminals as possible. =20
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> - "png" doesn't appear to have a "dashed" option.

Right. Many terminals have no support for dashes, and the ones that do may
not allow you to change the patterns.  These are limitations imposed by the
hardware/firmware/support library.

> - Number to symbol translation is pretty consistent across terminals up t=
o #13.

Good. That's what I thought you were worried about.

> - "pdf" has same exact symbol translation as "postscript" except #1 is a =
dot,
>   not a plus (BUG?).

It's a plus sign in the code.  See pdf.trm lines 727ff
So yes, there must be a bug somewhere.
A fix would be welcome.

> - "fig" has symbol inconsistencies after #4 (BUG?).
> - "tkcanvas" has symbol inconsistencies after #4 similar to fig

I don't know anything about fig or tkcanvas.

> - "latex" has symbol inconsistencies immediately (BUG?).

LaTeX has a certain set of symbols defined in the standard.
The best we could do, I think is something like
1 +	+
2 x	\times
3 *	\ast
4 =E2=8A=A1	\Box
5 	N/A
6 =E2=8A=99	\circ
7 =E2=80=A2	\bullet
8 =E2=88=86	\bigtriangleup
9 	N/A
10	\bigtriangledown
11	N/A
12	\diamond

I don't know what the regular LaTeX terminal users might think
about that.  Make a proposed patch and see?


> - Number to color translation isn't near consistent.
That horse was beaten to death.  The colors are not intended to match,
because different colors are appropriate for different output media.


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Ethan A Merritt