Re: changing size of fonts in plots

[Ben Abbott]

On Monday, June 22, 2009, at 11:56AM, "Thomas Ilnseher" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm doing things like:
>
>plot(x, y, 'bx.-;Curve;');
>legend(2);
>legend('boxon');
>xlabel('x');
>ylabel('y');
>
>print("test.eps", "-deps");
>
>I use the eps for inclusion in LATEX. As  I use a two-column document, 
>I have to scale the Pictures by 0.75. This makes the text very small, 
>especially the xlabel / ylabel.
>
>A remedy would be  to enlarge the text beforehand (ie. in octave).
>
>In Matlab, I can click on the pictures and resize the fonts. This is
>obviously not possible in octave. Is there any command to enlarge the
>font size?
>
>(I apologize that I'm too lazy to RTFM)
>

You can change the fontsize of all objects with that property within the 
current figure by ...

    set (findall (gcf, "-property", "fontsize"), "fontsize", 24)

Ben