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Re: How to set different fonts (question answered)
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Pantxo |
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Re: How to set different fonts (question answered) |
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Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:18:00 -0500 (CDT) |
BGreen wrote
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:18 PM Brett Green <
> green.brett.r@
> > wrote:
>
>> Interesting; I'd never seen that discussion. While off the top of my head
>> I don't remember any, I'll certainly keep that in mind for when I
>> remember
>> or next time I see things where a link could help. Thank you for sharing!
>>
>> - Brett Green
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 1:01 PM Nicholas Jankowski <
> jankowskin@
> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Mostly, the reason I had trouble using this property was that I had
>>>> trouble finding it. My go-to is the "walk-through" part of the
>>>> documentation, e.g. here: <
>>>> https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Plot-Annotations.html >. Though they
>>>> are treasure troves of functionality, properties lists like <
>>>> https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Text-Properties.html > are less easy
>>>> to find and to learn from. Perhaps that's only a fault of mine, though.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> this did come up before (see the discussion at
>>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50247) because there was an issues
>>> linking to pages with spaces in the names. that bug has an outstanding
>>> task
>>> of identifying which functions would benefit from document link updates
>>> now
>>> that the underlying issue is fixed. maybe you could help identify other
>>> places where a simple link to follow would have made the search easier?
>>>
>>
> Following up on this, where should I suggest places that links could be
> added? I see two options on savannah.gnu.org
> <https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=octave> - the general help
> mailing
> list and the maintainers mailing list. I would assume the latter would be
> more appropriate, but it would be rude to invite myself in.
>
> A recent question asked about bar graphs, and I think the user wanted to
> relabel the bins on the horizontal axis. I found a solution in the axes
> properties page, but only because I already knew to look there. The bar
> function reference
> <https://octave.sourceforge.io/octave/function/bar.html>
> and entry on the Two-Dimensional Plots page
> <https://octave.org/doc/v4.0.0/Two_002dDimensional-Plots.html> could
> link
> to this to explain how to alter bin labels.
I think the best place would be to first add comments in
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50247
Now if you want to discuss Octave development with a larger audience you are
welcome to the post to the maintainers list, any time you want. Consider
yourself as permanently invited :-)
Pantxo
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