ylabel kills plot?

[Matthias Brennwald]

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Matthias Brennwald, Käferholzstrasse 173, CH-8046 Zürich, +41 44 364  
17 03

On Jul 23, 2009, at 2:01 PM, help-octave-request at octave.org wrote:

>> Dear All
>>
>> Consider the following code:
>>
>> -------
>> plot (rand(1,10));
>> xlabel ('x-label','fontsize',22);
>> ylabel ('y-label','fontsize',22);
>> -------
>>
>> For some reason, this does not produce the expected plot. I just get
>> an empty plot window. If I omit the 'fontsize',22 part, everything
>> works as expected. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> (This is on Mac OS X with Octave 3.2.0 and gnuplot 4.2 patchlevel 5,
>> both from MacPorts.)
>>
>> Matthias
>
> I get a plot window with the line and the ticklabels, but no x/y  
> labels.
>
> When I change the fontname to "Times", everything works
>
>> plot (rand(1,10));
>> xlabel ('x-label','fontsize',22,'fontname','Times');
>> ylabel ('y-label','fontsize',22,'fontname','Times');
>
> I assume the default x11 font does not support 22pt.
>
> Ben
>
> p.s. I'm also running Mac OSX 10.5.7 with xquartz 2.3.3 and Gnuplot
> 4.2.5.

Ok, the 'fontname' thing also fixes the problem in my case. Is there a  
way to tell gnuplot to use a different font by default (e.g. Times or  
Helvetica, which work well with 22pt)?

Matthias