On Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 22:49:08 (-0400) Hazen Babcock writes:
 > Even though no one objected to adding 4 new functions to the dispatch 
 > table, I'm thinking that is probably not the best way after all. Instead 
 > I think the best way to do this is to add some new PLESC cases, 
 > something like:
 > 
 > PLESC_BEGIN_TEXT
 > PLESC_TEXT_CHAR
 > PLESC_CONTROL_CHAR
 > PLESC_END_TEXT
 > 
 > Drivers can then chose whether they want to get all the text at once via 
 > PLESC_HAS_TEXT, or broken out character by character by PLplot core via 
 > the above.

Thank you.  I just got around to reading this thread and was about to say
something about this point but you fixed it before I could. :) Having gone
through the painful exercise of adding new driver calls several times in the
past, I can definitively say it's best avoided through using the escape
function if possible.

-- 
Maurice LeBrun

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