Re: [Plplot-devel] Release issues related to unicode fonts

[Rafael L. <rla...@us...>]

* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2005-01-29 11:36]:

> I haven't followed Rafael's changes in detail, but I think all that has to
> be done for the plhrsh case (which should probably be signalled in a flag
> in EscText rather than relying on the test
> 
>     if ((args->unicode_array_len == 2)
>           && (args->unicode_array[0] == 0x10000004))

This is one of the ugliest hacks I have ever written in my life (BTW,
0x10000004 must be changed to PL_FCI_MARK | PL_FCI_SYMBOL).  I did it
because a proof of concept was needed for the right positioning of single
symbols. Indeed, the results for x01c are correct now, thanks to the
horrible hack.

I have already privately discussed with Andrew Roach about a partial rewrite
of plfreetype.c.  I stopped working in this file because I think that we are
stacking hack on hack and the code is becoming quite unmaintainable.

-- 
Rafael