From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2004-12-13 17:26:24
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On 2004-12-13 09:47+0100 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Arjen Markus <arj...@wl...> [2004-12-13 08:59]: > >> Having seen the screenshots (and the desire expressed by several people >> - not just here in the Plplot list - to use PNG-files) I am definitely >> interested in getting proper support for fonts, "special" symbols >> and PNG-files into PLplot, also on Windows - the main platform for my >> users. > > My feeling is that nearly all glyphs present in the Hershey font are > available in the FreeFont fonts, including the mathematical ones. I am not > sure this is valid for msttcorefonts (Arial.ttf in my system, for instance, > does not contain the mathematical symbols). According to gucharmap both the free and MS fonts (including Arial.ttf) have all the math symbols starting at U+2200 as I have stated before. Here is exactly what you should do to confirm that on your system. Launch gucharmap view --> by unicode block lower left GUI box, choose mathematical operators upper left GUI box, move through fonts by up/down arrows to see what they all look like for the mathematical operators. Rafael, since the presence or absence of the math symbols in each font is an important point, and the gucharmap results directly contradict what you stated above, could you please compare gucharmap results with whatever font comparison application gave you the contradictory information above to figure out what is going on? I suppose it is possible that font substitution is going on with gucharmap so that one font might be borrowing from others (although that defeats one of the essential purposes of such apps which is to evaluate the completeness of specific fonts relative to others). Another possibility is you may not have correctly remembered the results from your preferred font viewer or your Arial.ttf fonts are not installed properly. Anyhow, since font completeness with regard to the mathematical symbols is such important information let's figure out what the true situation is. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin email: ir...@be... phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |