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

2010-10-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-07 12:28+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote: Hi Alan, On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 18:14 +0100, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Furthermore, I think your best workaround is not to fiddle with the Hershey to unicode transformation yourself (since that implies you would have to patch PLplot indefinitely),

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

2010-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 15:18-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Note also these Greek-letter variations are all available in the same font. So it is not a matter of suddenly changing fonts in the middle of a string. Instead, it is using the same font with different Hershey and therefore UCS4 indices

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

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