[changeset] print.m (matlab compatibility)

[Shai Ayal]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:15 PM, John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
> On 10-Mar-2009, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> | What Octave should probably be doing behind the scenes is mapping
> | all names to equivalent names which are system dependent.  For
> | example, "Helvetica" would get mapped to "Helvetica" on Windows,
> | "NimbusSansL" on unix.  (Actually, it should probably be mapped to
> | "NimbusSansL" in both cases since that font is GPL.)
>
> So again, every application that needs to do something like this
> should implement its own solution?  Is there no library that handles
> these issues?

perhaps fontconfig
http://fontconfig.org/wiki/
is what we need, although It's linux-specific so another solution will
have to be devised for OSX/Windows