On Mon, 17 May 1999, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> >
> > I've added latin1 encoding to all fonts in exported eps files.
> > It's not very nice currently, as i do encodings for all fonts, not just
> > the onces used in the exported diagram. But it works.
> >
> > Marcin, could you try if ogonkify works for you now?
> >
>
> Using
>
> ogonkify -ATH -N
>
> (-ATH means: correct Courier, Times and Helvetica fonts, -N means: the
> postscript is "Netscape-like")
>
> I translated eps generated by dia to eps which correctly contained
> polish characters. I tried normal text and some UML symbols. As ogonkify
> supports many encodings (ISO-Latin-[1-9] and some other), this means dia
> went international. Thanks Alex!
Cool.
> One word of warning: ogonkify in the form like above works well for
> Courier, Times and Helvetica fonts. Other will not be "corrected". It
> seems dia uses only those fonts on default symbols, so this is not large
> problem. As future concept: it would be nice to specify in some
> configuration file/window which fonts are to be used for UML symbols
> etc.
This kind of global settings for objects is not currently supported in
Dia. Some support for it would be needed, and some questions appear. Is it
really global or per diagram? or maybe just a default font? Where is this
information saved? etc.
> * Problem with << and >>
>
> Experimenting with different symbols I noticed, that the stereotypes
> look rather funny - instead of
>
> << stereotype >>
>
> I get
>
> ^ '
> T stereotype t
>
> (T-dash and t-acute are single symbols).
>
> It looks so on screen and in ogonkified eps. In default eps there are
> correct << and >> characters.
> It seems the problem is caused by the fact that the iso-latin-2 fonts
> doesn't contain << and >> on the places one would expect.
>
> Maybe those symbols could be painted as glyphs or just as double <,
> double > ?
That's not so nice... But "<<" and ">>" doesn't look very good. They
might be availble in the symbol font. That would be possible to use.
/ Alex
