On 2007-09-14 00:10-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > So the fixes can be separated into a fix for the rendering of the core > Hershey fonts (which should correct text=0 results for the seven drivers > that have that driver option and also correct xwin, tk, pbm, and xfig) and > individual fixes for the seven device drivers listed above with the text=1 > driver option. So the work naturally divides itself into relatively small > individual tasks. > > Thanks, Hazen, for leading the way and providing examples of rendering 3D > strings correctly with the cairo and aqt devices.
Having slept on this, I have a few more points this morning. * As always, I would be happy to do testing of the above fixes (especially the Hershey one where I have a fully loaded system that can test most Hershey-only devices and the many devices that have the Hershey text=0 option). Also, my coding time is limited due to my current research effort, and my understanding of device drivers is limited as well, but if somebody shows the way for what changes to make in the text=1 case for one device driver, I probably have enough driver skills to help out by propagating those change to one or more of the other text=1 devices. * If the above issues are not mostly sorted out by 5.8.0-RC1, we should mark both plmtex3 and plptex3 experimental (in the release notes and documentation). * We should not propagate x28c.c (yet) to other front-end languages. I want to leave it as is until all the device issues get sorted, but then after that I will probably want to change it all out of recognition to add a lot more 3D text possibilities. 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: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
