Re: Difference in greek tic marks for x11 and aqua?

[Ethan Merritt]

On Monday 03 November 2008 10:46:32 Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2008 08:54:57 Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> 
> But as I know understand it, your observation is that the command
>    set xlabel "{/Symbol q}, radians" font <face,size>
> does not change the initial font used by enhanced text processing.
> 
> In other words, it should act equivalently to 
>     set xlabel "{/Helvetica=20 {/Symbol q}, radians}"
> but it doesn't.
> 
> Yes, the x11 terminal seems to behave differently that other terminals
> in this regard, which is a bug.

I have found two issues to be involved.
One was purely a bug in the x11 terminal driver.
That is now fixed in the cvs source for both 4.2 and 4.3

The other issue seems to be in the X-server itself.
I have not pinned this down precisely, but my older machines behave
different from the newer ones and I am wondering if it is a difference
between xfree86 and x.org servers.  In any event, searches for some fonts
(but not all) are now sensitive to the presence or absence of a specific
requested encoding.  That is, a request for a generic font (encoding *-*)
fails, but a request for the same font with encoding iso8859-1 succeeds.
If you still see a problem with your plots, try setting
    set encoding iso_8859_1
before issuing the plot command (or other encoding as needed).

It may be possible to fix this by changing the font request procedure
in gnuplot_x11, but first I need to better understand the failure.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt