default fontname graphics property

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 8, 2009, at 6:04 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> The default of "Helvetica" seems to cause a lot of trouble.  For
> example, many people report problems when trying to generate png files
> with gnuplot.  I only chose "Helvetica" because that's the default in
> Matlab and I thought people would expect that.  But since it causes so
> much trouble, maybe we should switch it to "*", which in Octave means
> "use the default font".  If the gnuplot backend sees "*" for the font
> name, it just skips trying to set an explicit name and gnuplot uses
> its default.  Does anyone see a good reason not to make this change?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe

It appears to me that the "defaulttextfontname" needs to be modified  
as well.

Ben