Re: Cleanup list of patches and bug reports on sf.net

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

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 01:32 pm, Harald Harders wrote:
> > Well, not exactly nonsense.  For example, say I want to have my x-axis
> > tic titles at an angle, and I want the end of the words to line up right
> > below the tic marks.  I think that requires vertical alignment.
> 
> I did not mean that is was nonsense to have a vertical alignment when
> using rotated text. But it is surely nonsense if the text is rotated by an
> angle that leads to an overlap of these lines. Simply try this:
>   set label "first line\nsecond line" at 0,0 rotated by 85
> Don't you agree that this behaviour is bad?

Not really. It just means you need more spacing between the lines.
OK, 85 degrees is a bit extreme.  But 60 degrees works just fine:

	set label "first line\n\nsecond line" rotate by -60

Or maybe I'll code up a user preference setting for line spacing.
That is, how much vertical space is implied by an embedded "\n"
'set line_spacing <foo>'
	term.c (write_multiline):
		y += user_prefs.line_spacing * t->v_char
where right now line_spacing is always 1.0

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