Re: about contibuting to octave

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Shai Ayal <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think this is a good idea -- this will decouple the text object from
> the backend.
>
> We will need to know what fonts gnuplot uses to get freetype to get us
> gnuplot's font metrics?
> I think we can get the standard postscript font metrics from similar
> type1 fonts which freetype can use (I distributed a set of ps-similar
> fonts with octplot)

I guess gnuplot backend would use the back-up implementation.
Or we could still use freetype, hoping that gnuplot will use the same
metrics...

Michael.