Re: subplot titles and labels overlap

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Philip Hahn wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Philip Hahn wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Have you tried using 3.4.2 with the gnuplot backend?
> >
> > I tried; it gave me the same error message dealing with \tau.
> >
> > octave:1> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> > octave:2> close all
> > octave:3> plot(1)
> > octave:4> title("\tau");
> > warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character `    '
> > warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character `    '
> > octave:5>
> >
> > unless I am invoking it incorrectly.
> >
> > thanks for your help,
> >
> > philip
> >
> > Ben
> 
> I'm not sure why you are getting the warning.  I don't see that.
> 
> However, the title command is being interpreted as "<tab>au"
> 
> To get \tau, you'll need to either ...
> 
>        title ('\tau')
> 
> ... or ...
> 
>        title ("\\tau")
> 
> 
> OK, the error message only occurs for the title command above, so it must be 
> an error relating to the <tab> interpretation.
> 
> title("\\Tau") returns \Tau 
> title('\tau') returns "t"
> title('\gamma') returns "g"
> 
> Not greek symbols but the traditional letters. A font issue maybe?
> 
> philip

Something is wrong. 

Please quit and restart octave. Then type the commands below (nothing else) and 
copy-n-paste entire result in the your reply.

available_graphics_toolkits 
demo plotyy 1
title ('\tau')
get (gcf, "__graphics_toolkit__")

Ben