On 2015-03-04 13:09-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > The reason I ask is because plpoin and plsym use symht/symdef and the > plstring documentation mentions that it supersedes those two functions. > > The plstring function passes the string to plP_text to render the text and > plP_text uses chrht/chrdef. The plpoin and plsym use plhersh, which changes > chrdef/chrht to symdef/symht before calling plP_text. > > I'm not sure what the intended behavior for plstring is supposed to be; > however, it would be useful to document the behavior.
See <http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.10.0/plstring.html> for such documentation. Also, if you look at the plstring implementation in src/plsym.c you will see it calls plptex internally so enjoys all the unicode text capabilities of plptex. Therefore, for unicode-aware devices plstring has access to essentially all system glyphs that are accessible via unicode-aware fonts which is a huge advantage over plpoin and plsym which have access to only a small set of system glyphs for unicode-aware devices and only the Hershey glyphs for devices which are not unicode aware. It's for these reasons that I have characterized plstring as superseding both plpoin and plsym in the documentation. Note that plpoin and plsym are not officially deprecated at this time but fairly far into the future we will likely want to do that. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
