Re: [Plplot-devel] ps.c postscript text fixes (fwd)

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

On 2004-12-06 23:22+0100 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> Greek characters appear now in files generated with the ps driver.

Thanks for this, Rafael.  This simple fix has made my day.

> However,
> the mapping between the Hershey and the Adobe encodings are wrong.  For
> instance, the intended "theta"in x03c, shows up as an "eta".  I know how to
> fix this and will try to do it soon.

There was a similar issue (some Greek letters in different order than the
Hershey fonts) for a symbol font I tried with the png device.  Is it
possible that there is a standard Greek font order everybody else is
following which is not being followed by the Hershey fonts?

The rest of my remarks assume that is the case.

I think we should make it possible to use the standard order with the
Hershey fonts so that we don't impose non-standard ordering on non-Hershey
fonts. Of course, the current non-standard order for just the Hershey fonts
should be accessible as well for backwards compatibility reasons.

Rafael, let me know if there is anything I can do to help you sort out this
ordering issue.

Alan
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