I have done some preliminary testing with the new changes to
mathtext. The STIX fonts and Arev Sans fonts (still my favorite)
both work well and produce pdf files that are readable by standard
readers (e.g., Preview) and Illustrator. I am using Mac OS X, with
the TkAgg backend.
Nice
On Nov 6, 2007 1:05 PM, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This fontforge script seems to do the conversion quite well:
#!/usr/bin/fontforge
Open($1);
Generate($1:r+.ttf);
Quit(0);
If there are no objections, I'll go ahead and do that and commit
John Hunter wrote:
On Nov 6, 2007 1:05 PM, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This fontforge script seems to do the conversion quite well:
#!/usr/bin/fontforge
Open($1);
Generate($1:r+.ttf);
Quit(0);
If there are no objections, I'll go ahead and
On Nov 6, 2007 1:36 PM, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is, of course, some time and memory overhead to loading larger
fonts, but it may not be significant.
The other issue with subsetting the fonts before distributing them is
just a matter of person-time: someone has to
The STIX fonts are now passing the mathtext_examples.py unit test. This
font blends much better with fonts like Times.
The rcParam mathtext.use_cm (which is new since the last release) has
been replaced with mathtext.fontset which takes either cm, stix or
custom. To use the STIX fonts, set
STIX fonts seem to be break with PDF or PS font subsetting. Looking
into it...
Cheers,
Mike
Michael Droettboom wrote:
The STIX fonts are now passing the mathtext_examples.py unit test. This
font blends much better with fonts like Times.
The rcParam mathtext.use_cm (which is new since
