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

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From James Waldby <not@valid.invalid>
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Subject Re: {/Symbol w} chooses letter omega from DejaVu font, not Symbol
Date Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:19:11 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:01:57 +0200, Giacomo Boffi wrote:
[re letter omega being taken from DejaVu font, not Utopia]

> this happens when i use the pdfcairo terminal, that uses the pango
> library to render text
> 
> # cat test.gp
> set term pdfcairo enhanced font "Utopia" set out 'test.pdf'
> set xlabel "{/Symbol w}t"
> plot sin(x) t "sin({/Symbol w}t)"
> set out
> # fc-match symbol ; fc-match utopia
> Symbol.pfb: "Symbol" "Regular"
> putr8a.pfb: "Utopia" "Regular"
> # pdffonts test.pdf
> name                         type              emb sub uni object ID
> ---------------------------- ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> TPHAFU+Utopia                Type 1            yes yes yes      5  0
> KKVWMP+DejaVuSans            CID TrueType      yes yes yes      6  0 #
> 
> is this a problem with gnuplot or a problem with pango?

Apparently neither.  From following link it appears that Utopia doesn't 
include Greek letters.  
<http://code.google.com/p/evristika/issues/detail?id=5>

> please help as the symbol font that is used in my plots doesn't 
> match very well with the text font

True.  I see that output from 
    set term pdfcairo enhanced font "DejaVu"
is self-consistent, but perhaps you don't like that font.

-- 
jiw

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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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