On 2014-04-01 14:19-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> My first discovery from these results (which I should have figured out
> from the old version of this example but did not) is that the ordinary
> asterisk is a very poor symbol to use for plotting points since font
> designers apparently have a long artistic tradition of centering this
> particular symbol substantially above the centre of the character box.
> Replacing the ascii asterisk symbol, "*" used in standard examples 4,
> 26 and 33 with "#(728)" (which for both Hershey and Unicode fonts
> translates to an asterisk operator glyph which has far superior
> vertical alignment) gives much better looking results for those
> standard examples.  I have already done this change for C and Python
> locally and making the remaining example changes consistently for all
> languages and commiting all these example changes is next on my
> agenda.

Done as of revision 13093.

> [...]All Qt5 tests have so far only been done in the build tree for the
> shared library/dynamic devices case.  Thus, our usual comprehensive
> testing will likely reveal more Qt5 build-system issues [....]

This potential issue is now first on my agenda.

Alan
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