I thought I had better let everybody know what I learned from the Hershey-font subset of the font issues I recently investigated and fixed.
There are actually two sets of Hershey fonts; the standard set and the extended set. The extended set is default, but you can change to the standard set and back via appropriate calls to plfontld. The two sets of Hershey fonts have non-blank glyphs in different parts of the Hershey index range. I have changed both examples 6 and 7 to show results both for the compact and extended Hershey font set and also updated fonts/plhershey-unicode.csv to transform the additional Hershey indices that occur for the compact Hershey fonts to corresponding unicode index. This allows unicode-aware devices to obtain good results for the revised examples 6 and 7. Of course, Hershey fonts are deprecated, but accessing _all_ fonts via Hershey index is going to live for a long time via plpoin and plsym which are fundamental parts of our API. So I am glad I have gone through this review and code fixup which all started thanks to Dave's extremely useful fresh perspective on PLplot. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
