Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-05 Thread David MacMahon
On Oct 5, 2010, at 21:42 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-10-05 22:19-0400 Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > >> I was interested in building it (5.9.7) to try the legend code. >> Is there a reason for the double pointer? It seems that >> >> this part\0that part\0...\0and the last part\0\0 >> >> wou

Re: [Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 22:19-0400 Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote: > I was interested in building it (5.9.7) to try the legend code. Is there a > reason for the double pointer? It seems that > > this part\0that part\0...\0and the last part\0\0 > > would do the job just as easily?? I guess arranging a string w

[Plplot-devel] Legends

2010-10-05 Thread Schwab,Wilhelm K
I started out trying to build the new release and did not get far with the instructions on the wiki. Then I found this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/unable-to-install-and-build-plplot-5-9-a-789425/ Building plplot-5.9.5 : 1) cd plplot-5.9.5/ , 2) mkdir build 3) cd buil

Re: [Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 20:29+0100 Schwartz, Steven J wrote: > Should plplot draw it's Greek theta from a script-like font when all the other Greek symbols (bar uppercase upsilon) are drawn from the default sans serif font? Would it look strange to a Greek person to see a word spelled with this mixture of f

Re: [Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-05 Thread Schwartz, Steven J
Hi Alan Ok as I suspected it is a qt issue and I agree that the qt3 Oct 2010, at 21:01, "dabergs...@comcast. guys mostly make positive improvements - although the migration of our code from Qt3 to Qt4 was far from painless. Since we bundle plplot with our software and deal with a variety of use

Re: [Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 13:02+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote: > [...]Gucharmap shows both > the symbols and alternatives, and the xcairo driver finds them, so I > guess they reside somehow on my system but not accessed by my version of > qt (4.5.3). I used to encounter this same difficulty (Qt was not as good a

[Plplot-devel] [ plplot-Bugs-3081443 ] mingw install - ada example - missingdll/libplplotadad.dll.a

2010-10-05 Thread SourceForge.net
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[Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-05 Thread Steve Schwartz
Alan, In looking over legend things, I've discovered that as of 5.9.7 (and probably also 5.9.6 but I only have 5.9.5 built) there have been a few changes to the hershey-unicode mappings that don't work with the qt driver (but are ok with the xcairo one). I presume this is down to my local font hol