Re: towards 4.4

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

On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> > > 
> > > One observation on gnuplot 4.4: this list has been much taken up
> > > with somewhat arcane problems on Windows. 
> > 
> > That's 'cos Windows is in the worst shape.
> 
> nevertheless gnuplot works very nicely, and it's good to have it
> avilable, so bear with us windows users ...

I think you may have misunderstood me.
The point is that fewer people are working on the Windows-specific
parts of gnuplot, so the code is in worse shape than the more
general routines.  I consider it a good thing that the list has
recently attracted more discussion of Windows problems, because
that's where the attention is most needed.

> I have attached a patch, which (for the current 4.5.0 CVS sources)
> creates an enhanced metafile instead of a metafile and stores
> this in the clipboard. It still has some debugging statements 
> included, so it's a testing version of a patch.
> 
> set term windows enhanced font ",14"
> set label 1 "e^{i{/symbol p}} = -1" at graph 0.1,0.5
> plot sin(x) with linespoints, cos(x) with linespoints
> 
> This works for me using wxp and microsoft word (see png) even with 
> enhanced text.

Sounds good!

	Ethan