Re: width of text in latex terminals

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

On Monday 14 March 2005 09:02 am, Robert Hart wrote:
> Is there any plans to improve the method of estimating the width of text
> strings for pslatex plots?

No.

> Is this something that could fit into the existing enhanced text support
> (used by other terminals). Or would the terminal drivers need to be
> extended with an optional "strlen" function?

There is a new dummy driver in the current cvs version called
"estimate.trm" that is used internally to do exactly what you 
want for strings using gnuplot's own enhanced text mode.

But that is not going to get you a full TeX interpreter inside
gnuplot.  



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