Re: unlimited windows patch

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > BTW, I've noticed that there is a bug visible on some enhanced terminals
> > (PM and gd enhanced patch by Ethan): all text is flushed left instead of right.
>
> What is PM?

OS/2 Presentation Manager terminal (set term pm)

> Text justification in gd+enhanced would be difficult, although I think it

The bug is somewhere else -- it looks like *all* text is wrongly justified,
even when using no enhanced features in any text.

> is possible with some work.   It is much harder than in PostScript because
> libgd does not provide equivalent operators such as gsave/grestore.
> A lot more would have to be done in software.

It would need a routine like strlen_enhanced_text(char*) which would
estimate the width of the label. Additionally, it would be of great use for
gnuplot's auto sizing of margins et al, where it counts all characters of
"/Symbol ...".

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Petr Mikulik