From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Dec 20 03:12:15 2005
Subject: enhanced postscript in print.m
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dasergatskov at gmail dot com>
To: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:10:36 -0700

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.
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