Re: [Plplot-devel] More on qt Greek glyph misalignment

2009-04-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-04-08 14:35+0100 Alban Rochel wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Experimenting around this bug, I've found a way to get everything > working properly (at least on my system), though I do not understand > clearly what's going on. If I set explicitly a family name for the > fonts, the bounding boxes some

Re: [Plplot-devel] More on qt Greek glyph misalignment

2009-04-08 Thread Alban Rochel
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-04-07 09:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > Hi again, Alban: > > I have done a bit more research on these issues, and now I am not sure any > more of what the real issue is. :-( > > I looked at the model of how cairo.c processes strings since it seems to > deal with all

Re: [Plplot-devel] More on qt Greek glyph misalignment

2009-04-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-04-07 09:56-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-04-07 15:40+0100 Alban Rochel wrote: > >> Alan, >> >> Looking in plcore, I realized that plplot switched to the "Symbol" font >> before plotting a symbol, which is not supported in our driver (not >> declared as a StyleHint in Qt), and was ju

Re: [Plplot-devel] More on qt Greek glyph misalignment

2009-04-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-04-07 15:40+0100 Alban Rochel wrote: > Alan, > > Looking in plcore, I realized that plplot switched to the "Symbol" font > before plotting a symbol, which is not supported in our driver (not > declared as a StyleHint in Qt), and was just ignored, dropping through > the "switch" statements

Re: [Plplot-devel] More on qt Greek glyph misalignment

2009-04-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-04-07 14:11+0100 Alban Rochel wrote: > Hello Alan et al, > > I've found a curious plplot behaviour having a closer look at example 3: > monitoring the font changes, it looks like there are font changes before > and after writing the thetas, switching from Times to Helvetica. I don't > thin

Re: [Plplot-devel] More on qt Greek glyph misalignment

2009-04-07 Thread Alban Rochel
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-04-06 00:53-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > To everyone here who would like to help out with testing: > > To help understand what I suspect is a qt device driver character alignment > issue, I would appreciate some specific testing of example 3 using -dev > pngqt to

Re: [Plplot-devel] More on qt Greek glyph misalignment

2009-04-07 Thread Alban Rochel
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2009-04-06 00:53-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > > To everyone here who would like to help out with testing: > > To help understand what I suspect is a qt device driver character alignment > issue, I would appreciate some specific testing of example 3 using -dev > pngqt

Re: [Plplot-devel] More on qt Greek glyph misalignment

2009-04-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-04-06 00:53-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Hi Alban: > > I have a contact who was kind enough to put together a simple Qt application > for me that wrote unicode text to a GUI text box. I changed that application > (by brute force since my C++ skills are not the best) to specifically use > t