On 2008-10-10 18:39+0200 Robert Pollak wrote: > Hi, > > according to the manual and to plsym.c, for non-unicode builds there is > (among some other escape sequences) "#fi" for italic font. > Why isn't there something like "#fb" for boldface?
non-unicode means you are limited to the traditional Hershey fonts. To see what is available for those fonts look at example 7. With -dev xwin (which always uses Hershey) it looks like the block starting at 2000 may have bold characters. You can address that block with the traditional #(nnn) escape sequence documented at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/docbook-manual/plplot-html-5.9.0/characters.html and also used in example 7. >From the quality of those characters, I conclude there is not much point in making all the code changes to make those characters more readily accessible using your suggested #fb escape sequence since there are much better alternatives available with the unicode approach. In sum, because the Hershey glyphs don't look very good nobody is working on developing the Hershey approach any more, and instead our focus is on the unicode approach. > > According to the manual, I can only get bold font with #<bold/>, which > is unicode only. > > I also tried plsfont(-1, -1, PL_FCI_BOLD), e.g. before the pllab call of > example 12, but see no effect. > > > --Robert > > (I know, it's time to switch to unicode apps ...) Yes. :-) 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
