[gl2ps] text size and special characters

[Shai Ayal]

can you send a patch file? These changes look important (especially
the second one) and it would be nice to have them incorporated into
gl2ps

Shai

On 12/21/05, Ian Huntsman <I.Huntsman at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> I have just started using gl2ps and find it very useful.  I have had to
> make 2 modifications to allow some of my applications to work.
> (i) in gl2psTextOpt rather than specifying fontsize I needed to specify
> font height and font width.  The implication of this is fairly
> straightforward.  A new variable into gl2psTextOpt and in the postscript
> output the "scalefont" is replaced with "makefont" with the matrix
> "[width 0 0 height 0 0]".
> (ii) I was held up for a while when I came to print special characters -
> the ones I have found so far are "(", ")" and "\".  If these are present
> in the string to gl2psTextOpt then the postscript output has to be
> modified to place a "\" in front of the character.
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