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Re: default fontname graphics property
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: default fontname graphics property |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:39:49 -0500 |
On 8-Mar-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
| On Mar 8, 2009, at 6:04 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
|
| > The default of "Helvetica" seems to cause a lot of trouble. For
| > example, many people report problems when trying to generate png files
| > with gnuplot. I only chose "Helvetica" because that's the default in
| > Matlab and I thought people would expect that. But since it causes so
| > much trouble, maybe we should switch it to "*", which in Octave means
| > "use the default font". If the gnuplot backend sees "*" for the font
| > name, it just skips trying to set an explicit name and gnuplot uses
| > its default. Does anyone see a good reason not to make this change?
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > jwe
|
| It appears to me that the "defaulttextfontname" needs to be modified
| as well.
Where?
I also see Helvetica in __go_draw_axes__.m, but I'm not sure that it
should be changed to "*" there.
jwe