FWIW, I get a square bullet on the xcairo device for symbol 850 on Mac OS X. This is the same glyph that gucharmap shows for unicode symbol 0x2219 in the "symbol" font. Some other fonts have round bullets for this symbol. Can one specify a font for use with plsym?
Dave On Mar 19, 2010, at 22:05 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-03-19 19:45-0700 Jerry wrote: > >> I was just trying to use the Hershey symbol 850 which is a solid dot >> and noticed with the cairo drivers that the wrong symbol is used. >> Instead of a dot it is a weird character. The same result occurs for >> all of the cairo devices. Does anybody else have this problem? I'm on >> OS X. > > No, it (Hershey symbol 850 on page 6 of example 7) looks fine here > on Debian > Lenny with -dev xcairo (and -dev qtwidget). > > On Linux, I would say you just need to install some more math fonts > on your > system that include the bullet operator. But cairo devices use a > subset of > the GTK+ stack that includes fontconfig to find system fonts, and > in your > case fontconfig might not be configured correctly. Another app > that uses > the GTK+ stack is gucharmap (which is an extremely useful GUI that > displays > all system fonts that are accessible with fontconfig). What does > that show > for unicode symbol 0x2219 = bullet operator (which is what Hershey > 850 maps > to (see fonts/plhershey-unicode.csv)? > > 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 > __________________________ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
