Re: [TCLCORE] canvas 'postscript' command

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

Jan Nijtmans wrote:
> The .c postscript command has an option -fontmap. According to
> the manual (see below), Tk's guessing only works for well-known
> fonts. Currently (at least since Tk 8.1), Tk capitalizes the first
> character and changes all others to lowercase in this case. Your
> problem might be a good excuse to change that behavior. Maybe
> others can provide more ideas? Anyone else has an idea what's
> the reason to change all other characters to lowercase? It's
> easy to change that in the core, but I don't know what other
> effects that would have.......

Postscript font names have to be PS symbols, so no spaces (and a lot of
other restrictions too). The font guesser title-cases each word — you
were probably testing with single-word font names — in the font name and
concatenates them:

   "Foo Bar BooBoo tWiNkIe" -> "FooBarBoobooTwinkie"

That's correct more often than not, but is imperfect.

Donal.