Available Fonts

[dmelliott]

 

Dear Help,

 

    In a recent correspondence from a user of "the other OS", there was a statement that he did not know the name of the corresponding font on my OS, MS.

 

    This prompted me to search for what fonts were available to Octave.  As far as I can tell, this can not be discerned from within Octave by any method other than hunt and peck.  Rummaging through the files also yielded a null result.  This is rather serious since not having the names is about the same as not having the fonts!

 

    What I did find is that Octave responded to the "Open" fonts on my machine.  Also, Helvetica is replaced by Arial, which is good since MS does not have Helvetica.

 

    Would it be difficult to incorporate a show font example list?

 

 

                                                                                                        Thanks again,

 

                                                                                                                 Douglas M. Elliott