axis font sizes

[Ben Abbott]

I checked Nabble and found this thread ...

	http://www.nabble.com/Font-problem-with-png-terminal-2.9.17%2B-td14150213.html#a14162915

If you'd like the change the default font to Arial you may get that  
effect by adding the line below to your ~/.octaverc file.

   set (0, "defaulttextfontname", "Arial");

As I'm running the developers sources 3.1.51+, I cannot verify this  
works for 3.0.1, 3.0.2, or 3.0.3.

Ben

On Nov 2, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Francis Poulin wrote:

> Hello Ben,
>
> I contacted the fink users and they said that they didn't do  
> anything special to modify the program.  Also, they don't know the  
> program so they cannot advise me on the details.
>
> My question can be rephrased as follows:
>
> Suppose I want to choose the fonts of the axis label to be something  
> different than the default, how do I do that in octave?   I presume  
> there must be a command like
>
> set(0,'defaulttextaxesfont','times')
>
> or something like that.  What i wrote above doesn't exist but if I  
> had a list of all the different properties that can be set that  
> would be helpful.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Francis
>
> On 20-Oct-08, at 7:39 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>> I recommend you look help on the Fink maillist.
>>
>> Be sure to tell them your OS version, your fink version, and the  
>> specifics regarding your error.
>>
>> But before asking try
>>
>> fink selfupdate
>> fink scanpackages
>> fink index
>> fink update-all
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Francis Poulin <fpoulin at uwaterloo.ca>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running 3.0.1 that I installed using fink on my mac.  Just now  
>>> I tried configuring 3.0.3, the stable version which for some  
>>> reason, fink doesn't install, but I got exit 77.  I have a pretty  
>>> generic mac OS X system but I don't know if there's an easy fix to  
>>> this or other errors that might arise.
>>>
>>> I tried the function you suggested and it didn't change the number  
>>> labels on the axis.  Any other suggestions?
>>>
>>> Francis
>>>
>>> On 19-Oct-08, at 8:50 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 19, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Francis Poulin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I recently figured out how to change the font of the x,y labels  
>>>>> and
>>>>> the title using something like
>>>>>
>>>>> set (0, 'defaulttextfontname', '/Library/Fonts/Arial');
>>>>>
>>>>> where I have a file called Arial.ttf in the above mentioned  
>>>>> directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I export the figure as a png those fonts look great but the  
>>>>> axis
>>>>> fonts still look awful.  Is there a similar command that will  
>>>>> change
>>>>> the axis font and size?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, while were at it, where can someone find a list  of figure
>>>>> properties that someone can alter with set?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What version of Octave are you running?
>>>>
>>>> Recently, a patch was added to the developers sources which  
>>>> allows the axes font to respect the axes font properties.
>>>>
>>>> Depending upon the version you are running it may be possible to  
>>>> either apply the patch directly, or to modify it to work with  
>>>> yours.
>>>>
>>>> The change was to __axis_label__.m
>>>>
>>>>  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/5bf8a57f85d5/scripts/plot/__axis_label__.m
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>
>