Re: hardcopy support for gl-render and the fltk_backend

[Shai Ayal]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Michael D Godfrey
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/17/2009 10:47 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>
>> On 13-Oct-2009, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:
>>
>> | One thing to add to the limitations:
>> |
>> | 5. No TeX interpretation.
>>
>> The simple TeX interpretation used by the gnuplot backend is done in a
>> .m file, so perhaps this code could be used as is and shared among
>> multiple backends, or translated to C++ (and also shared)?
>>
>> jwe
>
> Right. This is a good first step.  I will try to learn more about
> more complete solutions.

No to discourage anyone but gnuplot supports all the elements needed
for nice math typesettings (e.g. super & subscript), "all" that is
needed is a translation from TeX to gnuplot. There is nothing
equivalent in postscript and/or gl2ps which just know how to "render"
strings of a fixed font and size, so the problem might be bigger ...

Shai