Re: [Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-07 12:28+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote: > Hi Alan, > > On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 18:14 +0100, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> Furthermore, I think your best workaround is not to fiddle with the >> Hershey to unicode transformation yourself (since that implies you >> would have to patch PLplot indefinit

Re: [Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-07 Thread Steve Schwartz
Hi Alan, On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 18:14 +0100, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Furthermore, I think your best workaround is not to fiddle with the > Hershey to unicode transformation yourself (since that implies you > would have to patch PLplot indefinitely), and instead let your users > know there have been

Re: [Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 15:18-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Note also these Greek-letter variations are all available in the same > font. So it is not a matter of suddenly changing fonts in the middle > of a string. Instead, it is using the same font with different Hershey > and therefore UCS4 indices repres

Re: [Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 20:29+0100 Schwartz, Steven J wrote: > Should plplot draw it's Greek theta from a script-like font when all the other Greek symbols (bar uppercase upsilon) are drawn from the default sans serif font? Would it look strange to a Greek person to see a word spelled with this mixture of f

Re: [Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-05 Thread Schwartz, Steven J
Hi Alan Ok as I suspected it is a qt issue and I agree that the qt3 Oct 2010, at 21:01, "dabergs...@comcast. guys mostly make positive improvements - although the migration of our code from Qt3 to Qt4 was far from painless. Since we bundle plplot with our software and deal with a variety of use

Re: [Plplot-devel] Greek characters in qt-driver

2010-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-10-05 13:02+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote: > [...]Gucharmap shows both > the symbols and alternatives, and the xcairo driver finds them, so I > guess they reside somehow on my system but not accessed by my version of > qt (4.5.3). I used to encounter this same difficulty (Qt was not as good a