Re: \ell in postscript enhanced

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

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 01:36 pm, Harald Harders wrote:
> 
> See my other post. The \ell ist in the standard font cmmi10.pfb.

I didn't see it there.  I looked.
I attach the PostScript output of charset.dem run on this font.
The \ell glyph is not represented by any 8-bit character. 

Does one have to embed a re-encode command of some sort
in order to access additional glyphs?  If so, do we need to add
this to gnuplot as an adjunct to the fontfile processing?
 
> > But you would have to convert this from an *.afm file to a *.pfa or *.pfb
> > file in order for gnuplot to import it.
> That is not possible. You have to have either a pfb or a pfa of a font
> (or, or course ttf).

OK. I thought you could convert.

I forgot you could use ttf.  
In that case the easiest answer is probably to use the lower case "l" 
in   .../ttfonts/vladimir.ttf  
or  .../ttfonts/kunstler.ttf

By the way.  I think it would be nice if the PS_load_fontfile routine
echoed the FontName of the font to the terminal.  Even if you know the
file name of the font, you don't always know what to call it in your
text strings.   For example,  vladimir.ttf  is referred to as "VladimirScript", 
but I only know that because I looked for the FontName record 
in the output PostScript file from gnuplot.


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