[gradsusr] text strings with accented vowels

[Julio Figueroa]

Hello Jennifer

Thanks you for your help.

Cheers,
Julio

On 29 August 2017 at 10:28, Jennifer M Adams <jadams21 at gmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi, Julio —
> I certainly do appreciate your diligence. The hershey fonts won’t support
> the diacritical marks you are asking for, and it seems that GrADS’s use of
> the Cairo text API won’t either. Please see https://developer.gnome.
> org/cairo/stable/cairo-text.html#cairo-text.description. Your idea to
> edit the .ps or .eps files may work, or you could draw the marks
> separately, like this:
>
> draw string 5 5 n
> draw string 5 5.55 ~
>
>
> draw string 5 5 e
> set string 1 c 1 270
> draw string 4.7 5.4 `
>
>
> —Jennifer
>
>
> On Aug 28, 2017, at 4:43 PM, Julio Figueroa <jcfiguero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks all for the help,
>
> I wrote a little bash script that use different LC_CTYPE an iterates over
> all the fonts in /usr/share/fonts to produce a PNG with the string "[Año á
> é í ó ú AÑO]". Unfortunately the fonts where not understood by grads. The
> script iterates all the fonts and assign the fonts in grads under the font
> numbers 10 to 99. I attached the script in case someone needs to try with
> different fonts.
>
> I also noticed that when drawing strings with accented vowels after
> setting a font (10-99), the display will freeze, and not even reinit will
> help. I had to do Ctl+D.
> You can reproduce the bug with:
> set font 0
> draw string 1 1 TéXT 1
> set font 5
> draw string 1 2 TéXT 2
> set font 10 file /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/putr.pfa
> draw string 1 3 TéXT 3 * It will not longer allow to draw information
> after this command.
> set font 0
> draw string 1 4 TéXT 4
> clear
> reinit
> set font 0
> draw string 1 1 TéXT 5
>
> Perhaps my solution would be to produce my plots in EPS and then with
> Imagemagick replace the strings to Spanish.
>
> However, I wonder if recompiling grads using an UTF-8 font will make any
> difference.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julio
>
>
>
>
>
> On 26 August 2017 at 07:09, Jennifer M Adams <jadams21 at gmu.edu> wrote:
> I don’t know how to do this with Hershey Fonts, but you could probably
> find a font file that will have these accented characters. —Jennifer
>
>
> > On Aug 24, 2017, at 3:05 PM, Julio Figueroa <jcfiguero at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I want to add Spanish or French words to my grads plots. Using the
> following command just draw an empty space within the letters A and o.
> >
> > draw string 1 2 Año.
> >
> > I wonder if you have any suggestions in how to draw strings with
> accented characters, like á, é, í, ó, ú, à, è, ì, ò, ù, Ñ or ñ.
> >
> > I am using the binary distribution of grads 2.1.1.b0 for linux.
> >
> > I'll appreciate any help.
> >
> > Julio
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> George Mason University
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