gnuplot font messages

[Ben Abbott]

Can someone confirm the following behavior. When I type the following  
commands into gnuplot

set terminal x11 enhanced
set xrange [0.00e+00:1.00e+00];
set ytics ( "{0}" 0,  "{0.5}" 0.5,  "{1}" 1,  "{1.5}" 1.5,  "{2}" 2)  
font "Helvetica,14";
plot 2*x

I get the messages below.

setting font to Helvetica,14
setting font to Helvetica,14
setting font to Helvetica,14
setting font to Helvetica,14
setting font to Helvetica,14
setting font to Helvetica,14
setting font to Helvetica,14
setting font to Helvetica,14
setting font to Helvetica,14
setting font to Helvetica,14

I haven't seen any complaints from Octave users yet, so I thought I  
should confirm its not just my installation.

By the way, if the curly brackets are removed, there are no messages.

set terminal x11 enhanced
set xrange [0.00e+00:1.00e+00];
set ytics ( "0" 0,  "0.5" 0.5,  "1" 1,  "1.5" 1.5,  "2" 2) font  
"Helvetica,14";
plot 2*x

Ethan/Petr, is gnuplot expected to behave this way? If so, can these  
messages be suppressed without suppressing everything sent to stderr?

Ben