Re: axis font sizes

[Ben Abbott]

Hi Francis,

I've cc'd the help-list as I'm do not recall how to specify the  
default font. However, I have some faint recollection that it is  
possible.

Ben

On Nov 2, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Francis Poulin wrote:

> Hello Ben,
>
> I contacted the fink users and they said that they didn't do  
> anything special to modify the program.  Also, they don't know the  
> program so they cannot advise me on the details.
>
> My question can be rephrased as follows:
>
> Suppose I want to choose the fonts of the axis label to be something  
> different than the default, how do I do that in octave?   I presume  
> there must be a command like
>
> set(0,'defaulttextaxesfont','times')
>
> or something like that.  What i wrote above doesn't exist but if I  
> had a list of all the different properties that can be set that  
> would be helpful.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Francis
>
> On 20-Oct-08, at 7:39 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> > I recommend you look help on the Fink maillist.
> >
> > Be sure to tell them your OS version, your fink version, and the  
> > specifics regarding your error.
> >
> > But before asking try
> >
> > fink selfupdate
> > fink scanpackages
> > fink index
> > fink update-all
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > On Oct 20, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Francis Poulin <address@hidden>  
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I'm running 3.0.1 that I installed using fink on my mac.  Just now  
> > > I tried configuring 3.0.3, the stable version which for some  
> > > reason, fink doesn't install, but I got exit 77.  I have a pretty  
> > > generic mac OS X system but I don't know if there's an easy fix to  
> > > this or other errors that might arise.
> > >
> > > I tried the function you suggested and it didn't change the number  
> > > labels on the axis.  Any other suggestions?
> > >
> > > Francis
> > >
> > > On 19-Oct-08, at 8:50 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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