Re: Windows terminal ignores fontname+size of labels

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

On Sunday 07 February 2010, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Working on the copy-to-clipboard-as-emf issue I stumbled over the
> bug that the windows terminal obviously ignores the font name and size
> specified for labels and instead uses the default terminal's font
> and size.

Huh.  Does the "enhancedtext.dem" demo not work under [real] Windows?
It works from the Windows terminal when run under linux+wine.

> To reproduce:
> 
> set term windows enhanced font "arial,9"
> set label 1 "e^{i{/symbol p}}=-1" at graph 0.5,0.5 font "courier,15"
> plot sin(x) with linespoints

Works properly under linux+wine using wgnuplot from Oct 2009.
Could it be a font path problem?

	Ethan

> Searching the code I found that in win.trm indeed the font is explicitly
> reverted to the terminal's default before processing the text output ?
> 
> If I remove this statement, at least the size is working as expected, 
> but the font name still is ignored?
> 
> benjamin
> 
> diff --git a/term/win.trm b/term/win.trm
> --- a/term/win.trm
> +++ b/term/win.trm
> @@ -894,7 +894,7 @@
> 
>   	/* This will restore the default font
>   	   and update WIN_font and WIN_fontsize */
> -	WIN_set_font(NULL);
> +	/*WIN_set_font(NULL); */
> 
>   	/* Set the recursion going. We say to keep going until a
>   	* closing brace, but we don't really expect to find one.