On 2013-03-11 14:35-0600 James Tappin wrote: > I have an application (Graffer: https://github.com/jtappin/graffer.git) > that uses plplot as its plotting engine, but when I try to use the script > or symbol fonts (plsfont(PL_FCI_SCRIPT,...) or plsfont(PL_FCI_SYMBOL,...) I > just get the regular Sans-serif font. > > Is this because I don't have the needed fonts installed, or because the > various cairo (and epsqt) drivers don't support them?
The latter. Our qt and cairo devices just support serif, sanserif, and typewriter font families. Search for fontFamily in bindings/qt_gui/plqt.cpp or familyLookup in drivers/cairo.c. The reason for this deliberate design choice for our two best device driver families (qt and cairo) is that we only want PLplot users to be able to constrain fonts in the most general way and let glyph-finding software (such as fontconfig) do its job to find the best glyph for the (generic) font that is specified. "Best", of course, depends on individual choice, but the idea is that if you really want to be specific about fonts, then do the appropriate fontconfig configuration (or equivalent Qt4 font configuration) to deliver what you think is the "best" choice. I admit I have never actually done that because I have always been satisfied with the default fontcontig or Qt4 font choice. Also note that "script" and "symbol" fonts are a dated concept. For example, fontconfig would not know what to do with such font families since very few if any of the major font designs (all of which have serif, sanserif, and typewriter families) have script or symbol families. I hope this overview of what is going on with font choice and PLplot is a help to you. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
