Re: [Gnuplot-info] title font size

[Mahmood N. <nt_...@ya...>]

These fonts are available on my system

$ ls /usr/share/fonts/
abyssinica      jomolhari           lklug             lohit-gujarati  lohit-tamil    paktype     thai-scalable
bitstream-vera  khmeros             lohit-assamese    lohit-kannada   lohit-telugu   sil-padauk  tibetan-machine-uni
default         kurdit-unikurd-web  lohit-bengali     lohit-oriya     madan          smc         un-core
dejavu          liberation          lohit-devanagari  lohit-punjabi   msttcorefonts  stix        vlgothic



Here is the output of "help fonts"
gnuplot> help fonts
 Gnuplot does not provide any fonts of its own. It relies on external font
 handling, the details of which unfortunately vary from one terminal type to
 another. Brief documentation of font mechanisms that apply to more than one
 terminal type is given here. For information on font use by other individual
 terminals, see the documentation for that terminal.

Subtopics available for fonts:
    cairo             gd                postscript



Now, there is no difference between these commands

gnuplot> set title "something" fonts "/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf,10"
and
gnuplot> set title "something" fonts "/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf,40"
 

What is wrong? I can not understand that!

Regards,
Mahmood



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 From: BBands <bb...@gm...>
To: Mahmood Naderan <nt_...@ya...>; gnuplot <gnu...@li...> 
Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Gnuplot-info] title font size
 

Mahmood,

As I understand it, the fonts are supplied by the distribution and gp
tries to make intelligent subs when it can't find an exact match. So,
the first hing I would do is check to see what fonts are installed and
use those directly. So, if you have super-duper-font installed and it
has a 30 point version: 'set title "something" font
"super-duper-font,30"'

'help fonts gd' gives some clues as to how gp looks for fonts.

On my version of Linux I have TrueType fonts installed, so 'set title
"something" font "Arial,30"' works.

Good plotting,

     John

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Mahmood Naderan <nt_...@ya...> wrote:
> I have installed the very latest version from source (4.6 patchlevel 3). I
> can see some text for "help fonts cairo". However still I don't see any
> change in font size. That is important for me because I want to change the
> text size of the axis.