Anyone know how to change fonts in figures when using Octave?

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Ok... well I feel foolish. I didn't have Vera loaded on this machine. I tried Arial and it worked:
[tt]title("Pressure Vessel Cylinder\nStress Distribution",'FontSize',8,'FontName','Arial')[/tt]

That said, I can't seem to figure out how to list what fonts are available. Any suggestions there? I tried [tt]listfonts[/tt] and it doesn't seem to be implemented yet in Octave...

Also, it would be helpful if there were a way to change all of the fonts in the figure at once. set(h,'FontName','Arial') doesn't seem to work.

Thanks for the help.

//signed//
Christopher K. Hubley
Mechanical Engineer
Sunpower Incorporated
Athens, Ohio

 

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Well, I still can't figure out how to find the available font names, but as far as changing the font goes a bit of tinkering produced this:

hh=findall(h,'-property','FontName')
set(hh,'FontName','Arial')

...which changes the typeface of the entire figure.

//signed//
Christopher K. Hubley
Mechanical Engineer
Sunpower Incorporated
Athens, Ohio

 

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Ok, I figured out a way to change fonts (while I was waiting for Ansys to solve something unrelated). As I originally surmised, you can select a new font by pointing Octave/Matlab to the location of the font. Like so:

hh=findall(h,'-property','FontName')
set(hh,'FontName','/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed.ttf')

It seems that Octave recognizes some font names (eg. Arial), though I cannot seem to find a way to list what the recognized font names are.

Well, the method above might be clunky, but it does a fine job of selecting new fonts. I've attached a sample.

Hope this helps someone out there.

//signed//
Christopher K. Hubley
Mechanical Engineer
Sunpower Incorporated
Athens, Ohio