Re: [matplotlib-devel] new release?

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Michael Droettboom wrote:

>> I am still having a strange problem: ESP Ghostscript 815.04 (ubuntu 
>> feisty) chokes on the apostrophe in text, such as in table_demo and 
>> one or two others.  I think this is just a crazy bug in this version 
>> of gs; you aren't having any such problems, are you?  The problem does 
>> not appear with cairo.ps output because it encodes the text strings in 
>> some bizarre fashion.
> Thanks.  I've fixed this on the branch and trunk.

Mike,

Thank you--so, is this a workaround for a gs bug, or does the single 
quote have some special meaning in postscript?  When I first ran into 
the problem I googled and looked at some PS documentation, and I 
couldn't find anything indicating that the plain single quote character 
as a literal was forbidden.

Eric