Re: [Plplot-devel] Why are we advising win-bash for our advanced Windows users?

2010-04-05 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Alan, > My recent experiences with MSYS-bash under Wine have been good. It's version > is > > bash.exe-3.1$ bash --version > GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-pc-msys) > Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > [...] > easy sell. The advantage to us of this change is th

Re: [Plplot-devel] plpoin codes 92 and 95

2010-04-05 Thread David MacMahon
On Apr 5, 2010, at 17:09 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I will commit when done and the result should look good for our TTF > devices > (e.g., all our cairo and qt devices) and our PostScript devices. > > After that commit, the Hershey font error will remain for our > devices that > still use Hersh

Re: [Plplot-devel] plpoin codes 92 and 95

2010-04-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-04-05 14:18-0700 David MacMahon wrote: > Example 6 on the PLplot website shows centered dots for codes 92 and > 95 rather than the expected backslash ('\') and underscore ('_'). > Code 94 shows as a degree symbol rather than a circumflex ('^'), but > at least that matches PGPLOT (see http:

[Plplot-devel] plpoin codes 92 and 95

2010-04-05 Thread David MacMahon
Example 6 on the PLplot website shows centered dots for codes 92 and 95 rather than the expected backslash ('\') and underscore ('_'). Code 94 shows as a degree symbol rather than a circumflex ('^'), but at least that matches PGPLOT (see http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/ pgplot/hershey.htm

[Plplot-devel] Why are we advising win-bash for our advanced Windows users?

2010-04-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
To Werner and the rest of our Windows developers: My Debian Lenny bash version is ir...@raven> bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. My recent experiences with MSYS-bash under Wine have been good. It's version