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Re: default fontname graphics property


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: default fontname graphics property
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:33:33 +0800


On Mar 8, 2009, at 12:39 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

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

opps ... I should have looked at the changelog. I'd assumed the change has been committed. I'll patch my archive and play with it some.

Ben



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