Re: [Plplot-devel] How do you specify special symbols and Greek letters with TrueType fonts?

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2004-05-19 08:47+0200 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Andrew Roach <aro...@ya...> [2004-05-19 14:06]:

> > Can you think of any other issues that might get in the way of adding
> > unicode support ? I think the biggest hurdle would be getting a
> > Hershey/unicode translation table.
>
> Yes, this would be the only single hurdle in the implementation, but it is
> absolutely necessary.

Andrew, I assume getting that translation table right consists of comparing
plots of the symbols for a unicode ordered font versus the Hershey font and
adjusting the translation table to make the Hershey font symbol order come
out the same.  I can certainly help with that tedious aspect of the project.

Alan
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