gnuplots default font size

[Ben Abbott]

On Thursday, May 07, 2009, at 11:36AM, "Matt Funk" <mafunk at nmsu.edu> wrote:
>Sorry to clutter the list with trivial things ...
>
>Is there any way to set gnuplots default font size? 
>As discussed in a previous thread i can select the default font via:
>putenv ("GNUPLOT_DEFAULT_GDFONT", "/usr/...");
>
>So how do i set its size?
>
>Is there a standard way to interact with gnuplot from an octave script (i.e. 
>customize gnuplot settings to my likings). 
>Or are these settings documented anywhere so i don't have to bother the list 
>with this?
>
>
>thanks
>matt

Do I infer correctly that you are running the developers sources (3.1.x)?

If not, what version are you running?

In any event, to change the default fontsize to 14pts, try adding these to your .octaverc

set (0, "defaultaxesfontsize", 14)
set (0, "defaulttextfontsize", 14)

Ben