<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Serge,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for responding. However, the following code snippet failed in the calling routine:</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="font-family:Monospaced;font-style:normal;font-size:14.0;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">ax</span><span style="color:rgb(92,92,92);">=</span><span style="color:rgb(174,92,176);text-decoration:underline;">gca</span><span style="color:rgb(74,85,219);">(</span><span style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">0</span><span style="color:rgb(74,85,219);">)</span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">ax</span><span style="color:rgb(92,92,92);">.</span><span style="color:rgb(170,170,170);">font_size</span><span style="color:rgb(92,92,92);">=</span><span style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">10</span>
<span style="color:rgb(50,185,185);">exec</span><span style="color:rgb(74,85,219);">(</span><span style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">'</span><span style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">/Euler3/plott.sce</span><span style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">'</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">,</span><span style="color:rgb(188,143,143);">2</span><span style="color:rgb(74,85,219);">)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">;</span>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">plott</span><span style="color:rgb(74,85,219);">(</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">xplot</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">yplot</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">zplot</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">k</span><span style="color:rgb(74,85,219);">)</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);">;</span></pre><div>The error message complained about the gca function. Should the snippet have been placed inside the plot routine itself?</div><div><br></div><div>Hal.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Serge Steer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Le 18/11/2011 18:06, Harold Dessau a écrit :<br><blockquote type="cite">I have generated some Scilab 2D plots and copied them onto MS Word at full scale. They are just fine. However, when I must compress the plots to fit a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">double column page format the annotation also shrinks and is too small to be legible.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I would like to tell Scilab to make the original annotation in a larger font. This is undocumented in the help menu.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hal Dessau<br></blockquote>I suppose you are taking about font sizes. You can change it by the following ways<br><br>1 for the current graphic window:<br> ax=gca();<br> ax.font_size=7;<br><br> or<br> ax.fractional_font="on";<br> ax.font_size=6;//here font_size given in pt<br><br>2 for all subsequent graphic windows: (change of the parameter value in the ressource used to initiate the axes)<br> da=gda();<br> da.fractional_font="on";<br> da.font_size=6;//here font_size given in pt<br><br><br>In the same manner you can also change colors , font_styles, .....<br><br><br>Serge Steer<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>