On 2009-11-21 22:52-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Anyhow, in retrospect the momentary change to the "symbol" font that I > historically implemented does seem to be a bit lame, and I therefore plan to > remove that font change (using #ifdef's so it is easy to restore it). Note, > this fix still allows use of symbol fonts if they are specifically asked for > by the user. Of course, I will reconsider removal of the momentary font > change if my Debian tests or tests by those with access to other platforms > shows substantial glyph-finding problems as a result of that removal for > either plfreetype type or generic font type device drivers.
I have committed this fix as of revision 10624. The tests (using example 23) showed some increase in missing glyphs for plfreetype devices, but the missing glyphs are rather exotic math symbols so I don't think it is too big a price to pay to obtain the actual fonts desired by the user in general rather than the automatic "symbol" substitution for certain inconsistent cases. Note, that since symbol is an alias of sans for the generic font device drivers, and example 23 is sans, this fix had no effect on generic font device results for example 23. However, in general, this fix will have a good effect for non-sans examples (the user will get the requested non-sans font rather than having a symbol=sans font automatically imposed) for generic font device drivers. Alan __________________________ 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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
