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In article <LOKI.90Mar1154035@marvin.moncam.uucp>, loki@moncam.uucp (Never Kid A Kidder) writes:
> (a) false charpath
> 
> 
> the `a' (presumably the last point in the character data).  I've never
> read of this discrepancy as a feature, but I noticed that Adobe's
> implementation of their `boldening' does a charpath (each character
> individually) followed by an explicit `currentpoint moveto', so it
> looks like they're aware of it.  You don't notice it if you just
> charpath a string and then stroke it.  You also don't notice it if you
> do something like


I recently encountered it when working on a new program.  This one typesets
music TABLATURE for the fiddle.  It does not use normal notation, and as
such, I am not using Sonota.  I am using some DINGBATS, and normal drawing
commands such as lineto.  The problem started when I was creating multiple
note heads, with various shading.  It really vexed me.  I gave up worring
about it, and did the expicit moveto that was needed to cure it.  I have
never heard of it before, but it would seem to be a very subtle bug.  I'd
call it that, because to my knowlege it is not documented behavior.

On a related topic, does anyone know EXACTLY what is preserved by a gsave.
grestore pair.  The books say "the current graphics state" and give some
general things, but so far, I have never seen a comprehensive list of
EVERYTHING that gets saved.  This would be imensely helpful...

C
Cheers
Woody