Re: More improvements to PostScript backend

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

David Feuer wrote:
> In my nonexistent free time I've done some more work.  I'd really like
> to do something about the compulsive gsave x y translate 0 0 moveto
> grestore wrapping that everything gets.  Could someone give me an idea
> of what could get stuffed into placebox?  Is there actually some kind
> of global graphics state that we need to maintain as a default?  It
> looks like pretty much everything sets all the variables it cares
> about.  I'd like to change all the drawing procedures to draw at the
> current point.  If they want to translate to make their lives easier
> they should clean up after themselves. 

Sounds good.

> Then the box wrapper becomes
> simply x y moveto, and we don't have to waste our time pushing and
> popping graphics states for no reason.  By the way, in the future,
> should I include patches inline or attach them?  This time I did both.
>  The attached one is less likely to have line wrapping problems.  This
> patch is against the versions in CVS.

Your patch looks fine, but can you make a proper changelog entry (see eg.

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Style-of-Change-Logs.html#Style-of-Change-Logs

You can put the log in the entry of the email. If you use emacs, just 
press C-x 4 a to add it.




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