Re: fonts with 3.0

[Tetsuro KURITA]

I think octave 3.0 have a problem to specify fonts of xlabel, ylabel, title.
In some gunuplot terminal, font setting does not work.

I the case the gnuplot terminal is x11, no problems seems to appear.
But we can not control label's font in the postscript terminal.

Because octave send lowercase font names to gnuplot always.
It looks font name is converted into lowercase in plot/__go_draw_axes__.m

I think font names should be dealt with in case sensitive.

If you modify plot/__go_draw_axes__.m as follows, we can obtain font 
control in postscript output.

*** 1604,1610 ****
    if (isempty (t.fontname))
      fnt = "helvetica";
    else
!     fnt = tolower (t.fontname);
    endif
    f = fnt;
    it = false;
--- 1604,1610 ----
    if (isempty (t.fontname))
      fnt = "helvetica";
    else
!     fnt = t.fontname;
    endif
    f = fnt;
    it = false;

I think this problem is addressed as a bug.



On 2008/01/11, at 17:22, David Bateman wrote:

> Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>> With the older graphics engine,  print("-depsc2", "-F:18", "fname.ps") would 
>> set
>> the same fonts for axes and for labels/titles. Now, with 3.0, it sets
>> only axis fonts.
>> I am not sure if this is a bug or the feature. If it is a feature, how
>> one does set the
>> fonts for th xlabel, ylabel, and the title?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Dmitri.
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> Sometime like
>
> octave:1> plot(1:10)
> octave:2> xlabel("X","fontname","Times")
> octave:3> ylabel("Y","fontname","Helvetica")
>
> should work.
>
> D.
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