On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:44:12PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Adam Borowski, on sam. 25 févr. 2017 22:31:57 +0100, wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:05:32PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > But for characters that have single-width, they are really > > > aligned with a proper fixed-width font. > > > > Depends on your software. xterm, libvte, pterm, rxvt-unicode get it right, > > mousepad, firefox, chromium and Microsoft Edge don't. > > Ok, but would one really look at the output of text-gnuplot in such > software? Cases where I happened to use the text-gnuplot were always > inside an xterm or such.
Well, if you run an _x_term, you can just as well use X forwarding or toss a png/svg over. On the other hand, mailing a graph or putting it in a commit message will meet a variety of clients, many of them in a browser. Alternatively, you can place the image on some random web server, but that's often tedious, and unlikely to stay 10 years from now. > > I don't know whether gnuplot is doing it correctly, I haven't tested -- but > > even if it does, the output will be misrendered by browsers. > > But if the output is to be rendered in a browser, one would use a png or > svg output :) The output is meant to be rendered in a proper $DEITY-fearing mail/usenet client, a rightful text editor[1], less or git's built-in pager. It's just that _some_ heretics read their mail in a buggy GUI client or a web page, view commit messages on github rather than locally, and so on. And in case their web browser is not elinks, we need to avoid bugs. Meow! [1]. Which excludes both emacs and vi, of course! -- Autotools hint: to do a zx-spectrum build on a pdp11 host, type: ./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11
