Re: axis font sizes

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 19, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Francis Poulin wrote:

> I recently figured out how to change the font of the x,y labels and
> the title using something like
>
> set (0, 'defaulttextfontname', '/Library/Fonts/Arial');
>
> where I have a file called Arial.ttf in the above mentioned directory.
>
> When I export the figure as a png those fonts look great but the axis
> fonts still look awful.  Is there a similar command that will change
> the axis font and size?
>
> Also, while were at it, where can someone find a list  of figure
> properties that someone can alter with set?


What version of Octave are you running?

Recently, a patch was added to the developers sources which allows the  
axes font to respect the axes font properties.

Depending upon the version you are running it may be possible to  
either apply the patch directly, or to modify it to work with yours.

The change was to __axis_label__.m

        
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/5bf8a57f85d5/scripts/plot/__axis_label__.m

Ben