default fontname graphics property

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 8, 2009, at 12:39 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  8-Mar-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> | 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.
>
> Where?
>
> I also see Helvetica in __go_draw_axes__.m, but I'm not sure that it
> should be changed to "*" there.
>
> jwe

opps ... I should have looked at the changelog. I'd assumed the change  
has been committed. I'll patch my archive and play with it some.

Ben