Re: Text engine for OpenGL renderer

[Thomas Treichl]

Michael Goffioul schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> For those interested, I just commited a new Freetype/Fontconfig based text
> engine for the OpenGL backend. At the moment, it's very basic. It's mainly
> a skeleton that contains enough to render tick labels, axes labels, titles and
> simple text objects. It will be enhanced later on.
>
> Note that if fontconfig is not available, the engine uses a hardcoded
> font, which
> defaults to Verdana under Win32 platform. As I didn't what font to use under
> UNIX platform, I left that part empty. This means that if you're running UNIX
> without fontconfig (development package), text rendering will probably not work.
>
> Enjoy,
> Michael.

Can somebody please give a short Octave code example how I can check if text 
rendering works or not after the inclusion of fontconfig into my binary (how 
does it look like - I'm no plotting expert).

Thanks,
  Thomas