Font size in plot

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 21, 2008, at 7:23 AM, dayve wrote:
>
> John W. Eaton wrote:
>>
>> On 20-Feb-2008, dayve wrote:
>>
>> | I got a trivial question but does someone know how to modify the
>> fontsize of
>> | the labels when plotting?
>> | The matlab command 'FontSize',20 does not work, hmmm...
>>
>> Precisely what are you trying to do?  What version of Octave are you
>> using?
>>
>> If you think you've found a bug in Octave, please read
>> http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to see what information to include in
>> a bug report so that it can actually enable someone to fix the bug.
>>
>> jwe
>> ____
>
>
> I've got Octave 2.9.12 and in fact I would like to do (as in Matlab) :
>
> plot(x,sin(x))
> xlabel('x','fontsize',20)
>
> to get bigger size for the font.
> That's surprising Octave does not know this command... :-/
> And from the plot window I cannot set anything.
>
> Thanks.
>

You'll need to upgrade your version. What you're looking for is  
present in 3.0.

Ben