On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:59:48PM -0700, David MacMahon wrote:
>
> On Oct 5, 2010, at 21:42 , Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> > On 2010-10-05 22:19-0400 Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> >
> >> I was interested in building it (5.9.7) to try the legend code.
> >> Is there a reason for the double pointer? It
Dave,
I'm content to be voted down on this, but a performance argument is a stretch:
how can one possibly fit enough legend text on a graph to cause a CPU any
stress at all? The first real use I made of PLplot was to plot 500,000 sample
time series; copying a few hundred bytes (max) of text wi
On 2010-10-05 21:59-0700 David MacMahon wrote:
> Does the library strdup the passed in strings, render them before returning,
> or just copy the pointers for later rendering?
Hi Dave:
It renders the text with
plptex( text_x_world + text_justification * text_width0, ty,
0.1, 0.0, text_
Hi, Bill,
On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:19 , Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> a performance argument is a stretch
I agree, that's why I prefaced my comments with...
>> For the smallish amounts of
>> legend text it probably doesn't matter that much either way
Since plotting is inherently much more number-heavy
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