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


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: [changeset] print.m (matlab compatibility)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:15:21 -0400

On 10-Mar-2009, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

| What Octave should probably be doing behind the scenes is mapping
| all names to equivalent names which are system dependent.  For
| example, "Helvetica" would get mapped to "Helvetica" on Windows,
| "NimbusSansL" on unix.  (Actually, it should probably be mapped to
| "NimbusSansL" in both cases since that font is GPL.)

So again, every application that needs to do something like this
should implement its own solution?  Is there no library that handles
these issues?

jwe



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