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Re: {/Symbol w} chooses letter omega fom DejaVu font, not Symbol

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James Waldby <not@valid.invalid> writes:

>> # fc-match symbol ; fc-match utopia
>> Symbol.pfb: "Symbol" "Regular"
>> putr8a.pfb: "Utopia" "Regular"

> It might be better to be able to specify within gnuplot the name of
> a symbols font, rather than that name being externally specified --
> eg, gnuplot's help pdfcairo seems to say to use 'usual fonts
> subsystems' for Symbol font control.

for libcairo/libpango the usual fonts subsystem is, on linux,
fontconfig and fontconfig (see above the quoted text from my OP) knows
that symbol is a reference to (the URW clone of) the Adobe font

is it possible that my problem is a utf8 vs ascii problem? gnuplot
pdfcairo's help say something about utf8 but, i must confess, a
chicken has a better understanding of utf8 than mine

thank you for the (omitted) workaround

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{/Symbol w} chooses letter omega fom DejaVu font, not Symbol Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> - 2011-06-24 12:01 +0200
  Re: {/Symbol w} chooses letter omega from DejaVu font, not Symbol James Waldby <not@valid.invalid> - 2011-06-24 15:19 +0000
  Re: {/Symbol w} chooses letter omega fom DejaVu font, not Symbol James Waldby <not@valid.invalid> - 2011-06-24 16:10 +0000
    Re: {/Symbol w} chooses letter omega fom DejaVu font, not Symbol Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> - 2011-06-25 14:44 +0200
      Re: {/Symbol w} chooses letter omega fom DejaVu font, not Symbol James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> - 2011-07-02 14:39 -0400
        Re: {/Symbol w} chooses letter omega fom DejaVu font, not Symbol Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> - 2011-07-25 22:44 +0200

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