[changeset] print.m (matlab compatibility)

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Shai Ayal <shaiay at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

FontConfig works also under Windows. It's included in the precompiled
binaries for windows. I didn't test it, though. But I think it's functional.

Michael.