Re: [changeset] print.m (matlab compatibility)

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Mar-2009, Shai Ayal wrote:

| On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
| > Without having a scalable font, I don't know how to reconcile this.
| >
| > Would it be possible to include a single ttf, or pfa file with Octave?
| >
| 
| I think we might need to include some ttf/pfa fonts anyway for the
| opengl-renderer.
| The main problem is that that there is that there are no canonical
| fonts in well known locations in linux, so the best thing would
| probably be to include some with octave.

So every application that needs some fonts should include them?  That
seems bad.  Is there no way we can just depend on some font handling
library and expect it to provide the fonts for us?  And in the current
case, Octave is not even using the fonts directly, so it seems that
gnuplot is the thing that should be dealing with this (though I
understand that we will need to deal with it directly in Octave at
some point).  So is it really our problem, or is it a packaging
problem that should be handled by whoever is building Octave (and
gnuplot) packages?

jwe