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Re: Difference in greek tic marks for x11 and aqua?
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Ethan A Merritt |
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Re: Difference in greek tic marks for x11 and aqua? |
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Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:11:09 -0700 |
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On Monday 03 November 2008, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Mac OSX, I noticed that the "aqua" and "x11" terminals give different
> > results when I add greek symbols to the axis tic marks *and* change the axes
> > fontsize.
> >
> > I've attached an "aqua" plot and the script I'm using to create the plots
> > for various terminals. I can't include the x11 bit map, as when I do a snap
> > shot, I get a blank bitmap. So I've included the plotstream for x11 instead.
> > Just type "gnuplot -persist plot-x11.gp" to have the plot rendered.
> >
> > In any event, for x11 the strings with greek letters always show up in the
> > default fontsize (10?).
> >
> > Can someone verify that the fontsize problem exists on Linux? ... and can
> > another Mac OSX user verify it exists for them as well?
I am not aware of any such problem in gnuplot, but without seeing the
input commands I cannot comment on whether something may be incorrectly
specified to the program. If you want to pursue this, please upload the
scripts to the Bug tracker on SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=102055&group_id=2055
In general, gnuplot leaves font handling to the operating system.
So font problems probably indicate system configuration problems.
>
> I suggest posting this to <address@hidden>.
>
> The only way i can change fonts in x11 is by:
>
> set term x11 enhanced "Helvetica, 20"
>
> or similar. More over -- i suspect there is no true "Helvetica" fonts
> for x11, so it does some kind of substitution.
# xlsfonts | grep -i helv | wc
320 320 19172
On my machine x11 offers 320 variants of helvetica, some from Adobe
and others from URW.
> Setting fonts in [x,y]labels etc does not make any effect.
I can guarantee that this works correctly inside gnuplot.
Of course, if your system doesn't really have those fonts installed.....
> I am not sure if it is a bug in octave or just a feature of x11 terminal.
I suspect it is neither, but instead an issue with the local system
font configuration.
--
Ethan A Merritt
Re: Difference in greek tic marks for x11 and aqua?, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2008/11/03