Re: tex interpreter not working properly in linux

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Vergil Weatherford <address@hidden> wrote:
> *bump*
> Has anyone seen this problem or have any ideas I could try?
> Thanks,
> Vergil
> ********************************************
> Vergil Weatherford
> MS Candidate
> Building Systems Engineering
> University of Colorado - Boulder, USA
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> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Vergil Weatherford <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I recently switched to using Octave 3.2.3 in Ubuntu 10.04 from using
>> Octave 3.2.4 in windows (with the windows binary installer).  Unfortunately,
>> now my plots don't format like they should.  When I used the command:
>> ylabel('Temperature \circ C')
>> to set the y label on my plot, at first I got the following error:
>> gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font while printing string &#xb0;
>> with font Symbol.
>> ...and nothing would print where the ylabel should be.  I searched the
>> forums, and found a helpful post from back in 2008 by "Dave T-2" about
>> fixing font issues and so I copied 'Symbol.ttf' to my truetype fonts folder
>> (/usr/share/fonts/truetype).  And set the font path in the terminal using:
>> export GDFONTPATH="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/"
>> Now, I get the following error:
>> No character set found while printing string &#xb0; with font Symbol
>> and the ylabel shows up on the plot written in all greek letters.  The
>> '\circ' correctly makes a degree symbol, but everything else is greek.
>>  Also, using
>> xlabel('{\it Altitude}')
>> Doesn't make the label 'Altitude' show up as slant text, it simply prints
>> on the plot as:
>> '-italic Altitude'
>> Do these problems mean something is wrong with the tex interpreter?  Do I
>> still have some problems with my fonts?  Is this a bug with Octave 3.2.3?
>>  Any suggestions you have I am willing to try.
>> I also wanted to note that when I try to print the plot to .png, no text
>> shows up for the ylabel (where it was all in greek on the popup window
>> plot).  It does, however, display '-italic Altitude' for the x-label.
>> Thanks for taking  a look.
>> Best,
>> Vergil
>> ********************************************
>> Vergil Weatherford
>> MS Candidate
>> Building Systems Engineering
>> University of Colorado - Boulder, USA
>>
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>>

My guess is that the version of gnuplot on your Windows machine was
newer than the one on Ubuntu.

Dmitri.
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