Re: [Plplot-devel] OpenGL

2015-03-20 Thread Hazen Babcock
From: Norman Goldstein norm...@telus.net I agree, I don't see that plplot would need to spin or in any other way manipulate the 3d plots. It would be up to the programmer to have the GL context wrapped in a 3D GL viewer, for example, if that kind of functionality is desired. The big change

[Plplot-devel] Version 6?

2015-03-20 Thread Hazen Babcock
Hello, Since we are considering a number of changes, such as fixing error handling, that would break backwards compatibility anyway I propose that we think a bit about all the other things that we might like to change, perhaps bringing us to version 6 of PLplot. So, my proposals in no

[Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of delegating this to the driver? The driver would instead be responsible for the display of the resulting bitmaps. This would finally solve the problem of the text looking slightly different

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 03/20/2015 03:58 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2015-03-20 14:31-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for rendering text instead of delegating this to

Re: [Plplot-devel] Version 6: text rendering

2015-03-20 Thread Jim Dishaw
On Mar 20, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2015-03-20 14:31-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2015-03-20 08:46-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: 5. Use a library (Freetype?) for