font problem with PostScript print

[Larry Doolittle]

John -

Thanks for your response.

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:21:56PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  3-Mar-2008, Larry Doolittle wrote:
> 
> | I'm gradually getting used to octave-3.0, after years with 2.x.
> | Some things are better, some are "worse", but the compatibility
> | with colleagues who use Matlab is obviously good.
> 
> What's "worse"?

The first thing that comes to mind is that I miss
the "sticky" nature of [g]set [xy]range.  Also, is there
a portable way to configure the key box?  In particular,
location and vertical spacing, replacements for
  gset key left
  gset key spacing 1.5

> | I had horrible problems today getting usable PostScript plots
> | out of it.  The default font for xlabel, ylabel, and title appears
> | to be "helvetica", [chop]
> | The origin of the problem appears to be the get_fontname_and_size
> | routine inside __go_draw_axes__.m.  [chop]
> This problem has been reported and fixed:
> 
>   http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/octave/rev/71209cfdaebe

Cool.  That looks like it will do it!  I guess I didn't search
far enough back in the archives.

> You will still need to tell gnuplot how to find this font.  There has
> been some discussion about this topic, for example in this thread:
>   https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2008-March/005266.html

I read that thread, and I'm sure I'll use the info someday.
For now, it's good enough to have a working default font in
the PostScript output, and Debian gnuplot already knows about
Helvetica.  Thanks!

   - Larry