Font size problem in 2-D plots

Dear users

i am using R2012b in a Linux machine and i have problems changing the font size of texts in plots (title, axis, labels etc...). Whatever size i define, the default size is being plotted. A part of the code is given below where i define those:

... xlabel('Months','FontSize',20); unit=unitsSurf(spc,:); unit=strcat(unit); ylabel([nameObs,' (',unit,')'],'FontSize',20); ....

anyone has faced this problem before?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

 title(['\fontsize{20} Look Big' char(10) ...
    '\fontsize{10} Look small' char(10) ...
    '\fontsize{20} Mixed_{\fontsize{8} underscore}'],'interpreter','tex')

A variant thereof should work.

[ulas im]

Hello

i am doing the following but still get the same fontsize on the x label:

xlabel(['\fontsize{20} Days'],'interpreter','tex');

am i doing something wrong?

thank you

Answer 2

[Daniel Shub]

See this question http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/answers/1238-font-size-changes-in-figures

[ulas im]

Hello

Unfortunately it does not help me. Even the font does not change (tried Arial, Dejavu Sans, and a bunch of others). I am running matlab on a cluster of centos 6.3. Where should i define these? before starting plotting? is it possible if you can write me a dummy code?

thank you

[Daniel Shub]

Have you read the linked question and answers? There is no MATLAB code that will fix your problem. There is most likely something wrong with your Linux install. MATLAB needs fonts from the X11 packages in order to display the font and change the font size. It is not clear to me if the packages need to be on the X server or X client and how they interact. Are you working directly on the cluster or are you using ssh with X forwarding or some sort of X for MS windows?