Re: Greek letters in the EMF terminal

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 13:56:19 James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> >
> > Ordinarily I use the EMF or CGM terminals to generate plots for
> > PowerPoint charts.  However now I have a series of charts where the
> > labels should include Greek letters, and the EMF terminal's support
> > for "enhanced text" appears to be broken.  Any labels that use
> > "enhanced" features (superscripts and/or Symbol font) do not appear at
> > all.
> >
> > For example, with this version of gnuplot under Linux:
> >
> >         G N U P L O T
> >         Version 4.3 patchlevel 0
> >         last modified March 2009
> >
> > and these commands:
> >
> >    set term emf enhanced
> >    set label "vanilla label"                          at graph .1,.9
> >    set label "H_2SO_4"                                at graph .1,.7
> >    set label "{/Symbol s} is the Greek letter sigma"  at graph .1,.5
> >    set label "e^{i{/Symbol p}}=-1"                    at graph .1,.3
> >    set label "abcde"                    font "Symbol" at graph .1,.1
> >    set out "sine.emf"; plot sin(x); set out
> >
> > only the first and last labels appear...
>
> Sorry. I can't reproduce this at all.

Nor here, with

        G N U P L O T
        Version 4.3 patchlevel 0
        last modified August 2009
        System: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic

All the labels display correctly when I view the emf file in
OpenOffice.org 2.4.

Allin Cottrell