From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Dec 20 05:29:41 2005
Subject: Re: enhanced postscript in print.m
From: Shai Ayal <shaiay at gmail dot com>
To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dasergatskov at gmail dot com>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:28:04 +0200

>From what I remember about matlab, you can set the "interpreter"
property of each text object to "normal" or "tex" and this determines
how it will look on screen and in print. This is of course not
something that can be done currently in octave.

Since enhanced postscript mode only affects text, it look OK to me to
make non-enhanced the default mode and add another (say "pse")
terminal in print.m for enhanced mode

Shai

On 12/20/05, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <dasergatskov at gmail dot com> wrote:
> The print.m currently sets postscript terminal into enhanced mode.
> This could be nice sometimes, but it also makes printing less WYSIWYGish
> (at least for X11 terminal). I.e. things like
>
> title("This_is^a^test")
> plot(1:10)
> print("-dpsc2","testpsc2.ps")
>
> would look quite different on a screen and on the paper.
> I do not remember how matlab handles enhanced postscript
> (and I do not have access to it anymore), but I would
> argue that no-enhanced postscript should be the default, and
> "-enhanced" should be an option.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dmitri.
> --
>
>