Re: Fonts for the backend

[Shai Ayal]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:05 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 27-Jun-2008, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> | If this is acceptable to you, can you please add the fonts? Rather
> | than including a binary changeset, here, can you just get octplot's
> | font subdir from sourceforge svn - view it at:
> | http://octplot.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octplot/trunk/octplot/fonts
> | and get it using:
> | svn co 
> https://octplot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/octplot/runk/octplot/fonts
>
> I don't object to distributing a small set of fonts so that the basic
> things work by default.  For anything else, I think we just tell
> people they need to install additional fonts from somewhere and doing
> that is not our problem.
>
> Where should the fonts go in the Octave sources?  A new directory
> called fonts at the same level as libcruft, liboctave, and src?

I have no strong opinion about the location. We should also establish
a place for the fonts i the installed distribution so that we can find
them at run-time

Shai