Difference in greek tic marks for x11 and aqua?

Ben Abbott bpabbott at mac.com
Mon Nov 3 17:42:37 CST 2008


On Nov 3, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Monday 03 November 2008 09:11:25 Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov
>> <dasergatskov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> set term x11 enh
>>> set xlabel "{/Symbol q}, radians" font "Helvetica, 20"
>>
>> If I use
>> set xlabel "radians" font "Helvetica, 20"
>>
>> insted -- everything works as expected...
>
> Yes, because that does not invoke the enhanced text mode.
>
> As I understand it at this moment, the problem is the font
> requested by the 'set ...' command is only applied to normal text,
> not to enhanced text.
>
> If a text string does not use any of the enhanced text markup
> characters, then it is handled by the normal text processing code.

A bit more information. When I try

	set xlabel "{/Symbol=20 q}, radians"  font "Times,20";

The "radians" is not 20pt.

Ben


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