[Plplot-general] LASi-1.0.5 is released which implies really nice looking -dev psttfc results

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

See http://unifont.org/lasi/.  Avoid lasi-1.0.4.tag.gz which has a number of
issues which have been solved with lasi-1.0.5.tag.gz.  You need to build
LASi-1.0.5 software in order to use -dev psttfc (the new postscript device
that can handle unicode-enabled truetype fonts and complex text layout
languages).  The language results are worth it as you can see from the
latest results we have just put up at
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples/demo24.php.

We don't have any other psttfc examples displayed on our website at the
moment, but rest assured this device is also especially good with math
symbols (as in example 23).  The reason is this device gives you access to
the rich set of Mathematical symbols that are available for TrueType fonts,
but which are not available for the Type 1 fonts that limit our traditional
postscript device (-dev psc).

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

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).
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