Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sunday 20 August 2006 10:25 am, Edin Salković wrote:
>> Also, I thought that the author of the current code base did some
>> design mistakes at the begining. And, being a developer newbie,
>> it's a lot easier to start things from scratch, than make fixes to
>> old stuff you don't understand well.
>
> Just a general comment. Eric Raymond observed in The Cathedral and
> the Bazaar that "Good programmers know what to write. Great ones
> know what to rewrite (and reuse)."
See also: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
>> The point is that, i.e. \cal sets the current fontface to "cal",
>> and the change is propagated till the end of the current scope (or
>> untill it hits \rm, for example). Old mathtext applies it only to
>> the first item after the command.
>
> What does this have to do with real TeX? Maybe you could post an
> example. It is possibly just an mpl bug that needs to be addressed.
Run the attached file through LaTeX to see what he means. Does
Matplotlib attempt to replicate some subset of (La)TeX syntax exactly,
or is it just a "TeX-like" syntax?
--
Jouni
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Using the traditional Plain \TeX\ declarations,
this is in roman, {\it this is in italics, \bf this is in boldface,
\rm back to roman, \bf some boldface again.}
This is outside the \{~\} pair and thus in roman.
Using the recommended \LaTeX\ commands,
\textit{this is in italics, \textrm{this is STILL in italics,}
\textbf{this is in both italics and boldface,}}
THIS is in roman, \textbf{and this is in boldface.}
(If you forget the braces, the command only applies
to the following character:
\textit italics, \textbf boldface.)
\end{document}
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