On Monday 09 April 2007 07:40:35 am Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> I just committed the beginnings of draw_tex for the pdf backend, which
> uses the dvi reader in the new file dviread.py. This is all in a very
> rudimentary stage, but I'm committing now since I won't likely have
> much time to work on this in the near future. In the meantime, if
> anyone's interested in developing it further, take a look at
> backend_pdf.py for caveats and how to enable it.
>
> The following script produces the attached output; note that the
> \alpha is broken (must be some encoding issues) but the underscore
> command \_ works, unlike in plain mathtext.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.use('PDF')
> from pylab import *
> rc('text', usetex=True)
> rc('font', serif='Computer Modern Roman', size=10)
> subplot(111)
> setp(gca(), xticks=[], yticks=[])
> text(0.5, 0.5, r'$f(x)=\alpha\_1$', fontsize=10)
> savefig('foobar.pdf')This looks like a great start, Jouni. At least three times in the past, I have tried to get started on writing a dvi parser for exactly this purpose, and I never could make any real progress on it in the amount of time I had available. Plus, I was in over my head and had to relearn a lot each time I started over. I'm really impressed with what you have done. Nice work! Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
