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Re: Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files

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On 13.04.2022 17:57, Martin Brown wrote:
> On 13/04/2022 06:48, Jörg Buchholz wrote:
>> On 12.04.2022 19:01, Martin Brown wrote:
> 
>>> I suspect now that there is something font related missing from my
>>> MiKTex 2.9 install. I tried looking in its fonts directory but found a
>>> maze of confusing little passageways all alike. No CP*.ps files at all.
>>> Subdirectories
>>>   afm, cmap, end, map, misc, opentype, pfm, source, tfm, type1, vf
>>
>> Here is a "cp1252.4ht" and a "cp1252.enc" in the "...\MiKTeX\fonts...."
>> directory.
> 
> I have "cp1252.4ht" in MiKTeX\tex\generic\tex4ht
> Also a "cp1252.def" in MiKTeX\tex\latex\base
> 
> No signs at all of "cp1252.enc" in MiKTek but I do have two copies
> elsewhere - one in Maxima and one in a rendering engine subdir.
> 
> Where do I need to put it in the MiKTeX/GNUplot directories please?


Here it is at
"...\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\fonts\enc\dvips\ucs\cp1252.enc

But I never do something more than the "normal" installation.

> 
>> Did you try the epscairo termianl to get a .eps-File? There you can use
>> direct unicode code.
>>
>> set term epscairo enhanced font "cp1252"
>> set label 1 "\\U+03B1  \\U+03B2  \\U+03B3" at 0.5,0.5
>> set out 'greek-epscairo.eps'
>> plot sin(x)
>> set out
>>
>> There is alpha, beta and gamma in the label.
> 
> You are correct again!
> 
> That bit works fine, unfortunately on my rendering engine there is also
> the plaintext of the actual unicode escape sequences sat on top of it.
> 
> ie. alpha beta gamma delta epsilon symbols with
> 
> \U+03B1 \U+03B2 \U+03b3 splatted on top of it (5! characters worth).
> 
> It looks to me like:
> 
> Alpha is actually a lowercase a of the handwriting sort
> Beta is correctly rendered as the symbol
> Gamma is an uppercase X shifted down by one third of a line height
> Delta is correctly rendered (but why or how I do not know)
> Epsilon is correctly rendered (but why or how I do not know)
> 
> I copied your example verbatim first and then added extra spaces to the
> front so that the Greek letters appeared unmolested by the plaintext.
> 
> "Alpha" doesn't look much like a Greek alpha to me nor does "Gamma".
> Beta, Delta and Epsilon all look fine although where those last two came
> from I have absolutely no idea!
> 
> .eps file content looks OK to me so this is another vexing rendering
> engine fault in my Windows version of TeX. It contains the 3 escape
> sequences as above. I will give GNUplot patchlevel 3 a try next.
> 
> Thanks again for your very helpful suggestions and patience.
> 

I am at my wits end!

Jörg

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Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2022-04-07 14:22 +0100
  Re: Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2022-04-11 09:46 +0200
    Re: Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2022-04-11 17:21 +0100
      Re: Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2022-04-12 07:59 +0200
        Re: Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2022-04-12 18:01 +0100
          Re: Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2022-04-13 07:48 +0200
            Re: Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2022-04-13 16:57 +0100
              Re: Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2022-04-14 13:57 +0200
                Re: Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> - 2022-04-16 11:47 +0100
                Re: Greek Characters in GnuPlot EPS output files Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2022-04-19 06:55 +0200

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