[matplotlib-devel] MEP14: Improve text handling

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Droettboom
I've drafted a MEP with a plan to improve some of the text and font handling in matplotlib. I'd love any and all feedback. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Mep14 Mike -- Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] ANN: matplotlib-1.3.0rc1

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: It looks like the ability to include pytz and other dependencies in binary distributions has been removed? It's really just that the matplotlib source no longer includes them. Binaries can be built however we want

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP14: Improve text handling

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: I've drafted a MEP with a plan to improve some of the text and font handling in matplotlib. I'd love any and all feedback. nice writ-up and thanks for workign on this. One idea (alternative?) would be to put more

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP14: Improve text handling

2013-05-30 Thread Nicolas Rougier
For the free type wrapper, maybe the freetype-py may be of some help: http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/ I did not wrap all the freetype library but it already allows a fair amount of font manipulation/rendering. For unicode/harfbuzz, I've found this example

[matplotlib-devel] Mac binary for 1.3.0rc2; more errors than usual in the unit tests

2013-05-30 Thread Russell E. Owen
I uploaded a binary installer for MacOS X, 64-bit python.org python 2.7. I built it using numpy 1.7.1. This version does not include pytz, dateutil or six, but the included ReadMe says they are prerequisites and suggests installing them with pip. The tests showed more problems than usual. I

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP14: Improve text handling

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 05/30/2013 02:27 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: I've drafted a MEP with a plan to improve some of the text and font handling in matplotlib. I'd love any and all feedback. nice writ-up and thanks for workign

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP14: Improve text handling

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 05/30/2013 03:33 PM, Nicolas Rougier wrote: For the free type wrapper, maybe the freetype-py may be of some help: http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/ I did not wrap all the freetype library but it already allows a fair amount of font manipulation/rendering. I looked at this a number

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Mac binary for 1.3.0rc2; more errors than usual in the unit tests

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 05/30/2013 06:06 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: I uploaded a binary installer for MacOS X, 64-bit python.org python 2.7. I built it using numpy 1.7.1. This version does not include pytz, dateutil or six, but the included ReadMe says they are prerequisites and suggests installing them with pip.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP14: Improve text handling

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: On 05/30/2013 02:27 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote: With a fully-function mathtex, it could be the default (only?) text layout system for MPL, simplifying things quite a bit. I'm not sure that's realistic.