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 __________________________ 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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
