Re: 5.2 rc2 tarball now available

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 07/04/2017 06:45 PM, sfeam wrote:
> On Tuesday, 04 July 2017 17:47:56 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>> But even in the case of labels with the "boxed" qualifier, I don't see
>> any mechanism for either feeding the string width from the terminal back
>> to gnuplot so that it can draw a box,
>
> Correct.  The core code gets no feedback from the terminals.
> For many terminals it is impossible even in theory (e.g. PostScript).
>
>> or specifying to the terminal that
>> it should put a box around the text it is requesting.
>
> Not correct.  The boxed text option works exactly by telling the terminal
> it should put a box around the next block of text that is sent.
> The terminal does this by itself with no additional help from any core routines.

OK, if that is the case, I'll look at this a little bit and see if I can 
find anything.

Dan