Re: 5.2 rc2 tarball now available

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

On 07/04/2017 07:53 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 07/04/2017 06:45 PM, sfeam wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 04 July 2017 17:47:56 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> [snip]
>>> 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.

I've posted an initial patch for Qt terminal alignment with this bug report:

https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/bugs/1940/

There is a test plot screen capture there for you to look at.  I think 
it is going in the right direction, but needs some adjustment after 
discussion.

Dan