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Re: [changeset] print.m (matlab compatibility)


From: Shai Ayal
Subject: Re: [changeset] print.m (matlab compatibility)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:50:33 +0200

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
>>
>> On 10-Mar-2009, Shai Ayal wrote:
>>
>> | On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
>> | > Without having a scalable font, I don't know how to reconcile this.
>> | >
>> | > Would it be possible to include a single ttf, or pfa file with Octave?
>> | >
>> | | I think we might need to include some ttf/pfa fonts anyway for the
>> | opengl-renderer.
>> | The main problem is that that there is that there are no canonical
>> | fonts in well known locations in linux, so the best thing would
>> | probably be to include some with octave.
>>
>> So every application that needs some fonts should include them?  That
>> seems bad.  Is there no way we can just depend on some font handling
>> library and expect it to provide the fonts for us?  And in the current
>> case, Octave is not even using the fonts directly, so it seems that
>> gnuplot is the thing that should be dealing with this (though I
>> understand that we will need to deal with it directly in Octave at
>> some point).  So is it really our problem, or is it a packaging
>> problem that should be handled by whoever is building Octave (and
>> gnuplot) packages?
>
> Fonts have always been a headache, except for perhaps Apple, the history of
> which actually comes more from NeXT, I think.
>
> I was going to suggest as part of the release to include a "recommended
> packages" sort of thing that instructs Debian/SUSE/Fedora/RedHat/etc.
> builders how to write package dependencies for gnuplot/octave.
>
> Does Matlab unix have Helvetica?  Or is that a Windows-only sort of thing
> because of font-name copyright?
>

I don't know about font name, but in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica#Similar_typefaces
there is even a GPL's alternative

Shai


> Dan
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