Re: Matlab compatible legends for FLTK/Gnuplot backends?

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-Sep-2010, David Bateman wrote:

| I'm now thinking its better to remove the gnuplot legend 
| code entirely and use the same frontend legend code for all of the 
| backends.

I'm in favor of this solution.

| This just means the FreeType and fontconfig are required for 
| the gnuplot backend as well as they are used to estimate the text 
| extents in gnuplot... The current text extents code in Octave estimates 
| pretty well the text extents in gnuplot, at least with the wxt and x11 
| terminals I've tested with.

What about for printing?

I have no objection to the added dependency, but then I'm using a
system where getting additional dependencies is relatively easy...

jwe