[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41715] Enhanced Plot labels, SVG terminal, XML deprecated use of Symbol font

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                 Summary: Enhanced Plot labels, SVG terminal, XML deprecated
use of Symbol font
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thu 27 Feb 2014 12:34:39 AM UTC
                Category: Plotting with gnuplot
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Inaccurate Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.0
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

issue occurs when setting labels or legends with strings formatted in TeX.

 internal function __go_draw_axes__  contains a subfunction  __tex2enhanced__,
which replaces named TeX special characters (such as \Gamma) with their
equivalent in the gnuplot enhanced representation (such as {/Symbol G}) 

As this is passed to gnuplot, it is in effect told "please change the font to
Symbol", which it obeys. Because SVG is an XML file to be handled by some
external end device, as opposed to a raster, gnuplot does not draw the glyphs,
and instead directs the end device to render the glyphs with a text tag and a
font family class. But what gnuplot was told was "display the letter G in the
Symbol font", rather than the greek letter Gamma.
So, when this SVG file is read by a device that has not been specially
designed to handle Adobe's special encoding of this font, the resulting
display is not what was intended.

We live in the Unicode Age now. The use of the Symbol font for mathematical
characters is no longer necessary. The SVG files produced by gnuplot are
defined with a character encoding of UTF-8 _by default_, so there is no need
to use markup conventions that violate standards.


In summary, use Unicode instead of the Adobe Symbol font.
That should also solve your problem with 

        ## FIXME The symbol font doesn't seem to support bold or italic





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