Re: hardcopy support for gl-render and the fltk_backend

[Michael D Godfrey]

On 10/17/2009 09:38 PM, Shai Ayal wrote:
> 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

Well, you are right.  In any case it would be good to work
toward a complete solution that allows full TeX/LaTeX.  It may be
that learning from Asymptote is a place to start.  Asymptote is
on SourceForge.  It provides "LaTeX typesetting of labels,"
so it might be useful to look at how they do it.  It also claims
to be "inspired by MetaPost..."  I have used MetaPost quite a bit
and it is very useful and well done.

The Asymptote URL is:
http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/

Michael