Default font for gnuplot in Octave plotting

[Ben Abbott]

On May 24, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

>
> On May 24, 2009, at 12:46 PM, rdrider0-list at yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Ben Abbott wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>> I did a full purge and rebuild from the latest Mercurial Tip and the
>> problem is still there for me.  I'm using gnuplot 4.2.2 which is the
>> default for the Long Term Release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
>>
>> --Rik
>
> Ok, I do see the problem in gnuplot 4.2.2-4, but only for the x11  
> terminal. The problem is absent in gnuplot 4.2.5 and 4.3.0.
>

Rik / others,

Please tryout this changeset. I encountered no problems with this  
change running gnuplot 4.2.2, 4.2.4, or 4.3.

Ben


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