Once upon a time I was able to edit my .Xdefaults file to configure settings for Gnuplot. I could change the default plot window size, the background/axes/plot colors, maybe more. And whatever I had in there worked for Gnuplot in general, whether called from Octave or not.
That was a few years ago; now it seems that my defaults are overridden by Octave. Does that mean I can set my preferences somewhere in Octave?
And what about LaTeX commands in the title? I thought this had been resolved but when I tried to do
title('\pi');
all I got was a 'p' at the top. Is there somewhere to set a default font?