Default font for gnuplot in Octave plotting

[Ben Abbott]

On May 24, 2009, at 12:39 AM, rdrider0-list at yahoo.com wrote:

> 5/23/09
>
> Ben,
>
> I'm coming across some odd behavior with plotting since the removal of
> the file __gnuplot_default_font__.m.
>
> The following sequence works.
> plot(rand(50,1));
> title("hello world");
>
> When you add a label that uses the TeX interpreter such as
> xlabel('\pi + 1');
>
> the title switches into a Greek font.   Switching the label back to
> something normal without markup, xlabel('junk'),
> causes the title to revert to "hello world".
>
> Overriding the default fontname of "*" on the title does correct the
> situation but to my mind it would be preferable
> if the item with markup, in my example it was xlabel, had its default
> font changed to Greek or Symbol but left the
> other items alone.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Rik


I recall being able to reproduce a similar example a few weeks ago,  
but am not able to do so now. Meaning my title does not change to the  
Greek/Symbol font.

My tip is

changeset:   9247:b2790fd23800
tag:         tip
user:        Michael Goffioul <michael.goffioul at gmail.com>
date:        Fri May 22 23:48:04 2009 +0100
summary:     More export symbols to allow usage from an IDE.

The last changeset that appears to have touched on this part of the  
code is 6 weeks old.

	http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/5ecdb3d3568f

I noticed you've applied a changeset as recent as 2 days ago, so I  
assume you are up to date?

Personally, I'm confused as to why I'm unable to reproduce what you're  
seeing. I tried both gnuplot 4.3 and 4.2.5. What version of gnuplot  
are you running?

Ben