From help-request at octave dot org Fri Dec 31 18:56:17 2004
Subject: Re: Symbols, mathematical symbols, and Greek letters
From: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
CC: Octave_post <help at octave dot org>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:59:38 -0800

Thanks. I will need multiple fonts but was going to try below anyway for
practice. But what is fname?
octave:10> gset term aqua fname "Symbol"
         line 0: undefined variable: fname
Happy New Year!
Henry





on 12/31/04 1:11 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov at dmitri at unm dot edu wrote:

> Henry F. Mollet wrote:
>> How can I use symbols, mathematical symbols, and Greek letters in
>> Octave/Gnuplot/AquaTerm and then print on Laser Printer *without* resorting
>> to special software.
>> 
> 
> I am not an AquaTerm expert, but reading the docs it appears to me
> that it is impossible to have multiple fonts in the same AquaTerm
> windows. 
> If all the text you want can be expressed using the "Symbol" font, you
> can do:
> 
> gset term aqua fname "Symbol"
> gset label 1 "a" at 0.4, 1.3
> 
> etc...
> 
> If you have to mix fonts, then I would recommend enhanced postscript terminal;
> do not know if it qualifies as "special" software or not.
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> Dmitri.



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