Re: [Plplot-general] hershey chars at 5.6.1

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

On 2006-08-04 07:27-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2006-08-04 11:34+0900 Valery Pipin wrote:
>
>> I think it is not only about  internal limitations of  #(nnnn).
>> The problem is that "[Wb#u2#d]" looks ugly as well for psttf drivers (at least
>> in my case)
>
> I confirm this problem with the psttf device driver.  Also, "[Wb#d2#u]"
> shows the same problem for subscripts.

I was dismayed I didn't spot this issue when we first released the psttf
device, but no pre-release testing is perfect, and this is a nice example of
how PLplot users can do us a great service by speaking up about issues that
they find. Andrew Ross has kindly fixed this psttf bug in CVS, and I confirm
that the subscript and superscript horizontal spacing is now correct.

Valery, will you give the cvs version of PLplot a try and let us know if you
have any other concerns about the psttf device driver?  We want everything
to be correct for this device because when it matures it will probably be
our showcase device with so many nice-looking glyphs available for plotting
(if you stick to UTF8 or the #[nnnnnn] notation), with easy access to
TrueType fonts (via libfontconfig), and with automatic complex text layout
(CTL) capability via libpango.

Alan
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