Re: default fontname graphics property

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Mar-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:

| On Mar 8, 2009, at 6:04 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| > The default of "Helvetica" seems to cause a lot of trouble.  For
| > example, many people report problems when trying to generate png files
| > with gnuplot.  I only chose "Helvetica" because that's the default in
| > Matlab and I thought people would expect that.  But since it causes so
| > much trouble, maybe we should switch it to "*", which in Octave means
| > "use the default font".  If the gnuplot backend sees "*" for the font
| > name, it just skips trying to set an explicit name and gnuplot uses
| > its default.  Does anyone see a good reason not to make this change?
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > jwe
| 
| It appears to me that the "defaulttextfontname" needs to be modified  
| as well.

Where?

I also see Helvetica in __go_draw_axes__.m, but I'm not sure that it
should be changed to "*" there.

jwe