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

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 11, 2009, at 1:44 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Shai Ayal <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:15 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden>  
> > wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > perhaps fontconfig
> > http://fontconfig.org/wiki/
> > is what we need, although It's linux-specific so another solution  
> > will
> > have to be devised for OSX/Windows
>
> FontConfig works also under Windows. It's included in the precompiled
> binaries for windows. I didn't test it, though. But I think it's  
> functional.
>
> Michael.

It is available on OSX as well. There is a version bundled with X11,  
with other versions available from Fink and DarwinPorts.

I'm able to get a list of all TrueType fonts by ...

        $ fc-list : file | grep '.ttf'

Does this work on windows as well?

Ben