Re: [Gnuplot-info] Font problem in 2-lines titles with cairo terminals

[hchiPer <hc...@gm...>]

The distro I have installed is  Q4OS 4.7 (www.q4os.org). I began using 
it because it was said to require few resources and to run smoothly on 
rather old machines (mine is more than 10 years old).

I installed gnuplot 5.4.2 on another computer under Win10, and the font 
problem doesn't happen.

I suspect the cause of the problem is in the cairo or pango library, but 
I am not sure.

I was indeed able to compile 5.4.3, but without the terminals I use to 
use (wxt, pngcairo, pdfcairo), it is not very useful.

Thanks anyway for all your help :)


Le 15/02/22 à 20:47, Norwid Behrnd a écrit :
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:54:56 +0100
> hchiPer<hc...@gm...>  wrote:
>
>> It seems 5.4.3 brings the solution, but I'm unable to find a .deb
>> package. And unluckily I'm not able to compile myself.
> Perhaps I missed it, but what is the Linux «based on Debian 11» you
> use?  Is it one of the ubuntu family, like Xubuntu?  Is it Linux Mint'
> /Mint/, or the LDME 4 closer to Debian than Mint's Mint?  Perhaps
> something specific to your distribution contributes to the problems
> you report which might be beyond reach of Gnuplot.
>
> Curiosity aside, I just fetched Gnuplot (Version 5.4 patchlevel 3,
> last modified 2021-12-24) from sourceforge, decompressed the tar.gz
> (4.5 Mo).  The INSTALL file (no file extension) describes well what
> has to be done to perform the installation, which starts by entering
> the decompressed archive from the terminal.  Then run from the
> terminal `./configure`, followed by `make`, and `make check`.  For
> the then following installation /per se/, you possibly need elevated
> administrator privileges, i.e., `sudo make install`.  True, you have
> to request `synaptic` once to get GNU Make (e.g., GNU Make 4.3 by
> 2020) to run the make command.  In my case, it overwrites synaptic's
> earlier installation of Gnuplot 5.4 patchlevel 2 from Debian's
> repositories.
>
> Caveat: The installation based on the sourceforge archive does not
> offer you access to wxterm, pngcairo, epscairo, or pdfcairo terminal.
> Yet have the postscript terminal instead to generate a .eps with the
> two-line plot title with escaped ampersand and both lines in serif
> fonts greater than usually seen (by appearance /likely/ a different
> serif font than the by Bistream Vera).