Re: font size and plot size

[Evan]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Evan wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can confirm that when using the FLTK backend the text objects do respect 
>>> their fontsize property for "-depslatexstandalone" output. However, the 
>>> gnuplot version does not.
>>>
>>
>> That's exactly what I am asking for the gnuplot backend. I guess this
>> can be easily fixed by just passing the fontsize option to the gnuplot
>> epslatex terminal.
>
> Unfortunately, my experience is that gnuplot does not change the fontsize. 
> Let me know if your experience is different.
>

The following text is taken from the help document for the epslatex
terminal of gnuplot:

 In standalone mode, the font size is taken from the given font size in the
 `set terminal` command. To be able to use a specified font size, a file
 "size<size>.clo" has to reside in the LaTeX search path.  By default,
 10pt, 11pt, and 12pt are supported.  If the package "extsizes" is
 installed, 8pt, 9pt, 14pt, 17pt, and 20pt are added.

I have test to add something like "set terminal epslatex 20" to the
gnuplot initialization file ".gnuplot", this does change the font size
for "-depslatexstandalone" when printing in octave. So I think this
can be easily added to print.m of octave.