John Hunter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Barring that, I suppose we'll have to a) drop the symbol table or b) use >> mathtext to generate the math for LaTeX (there's something very patricidal >> about that... ;). b) may be a little bit of work to do well, since we don't >> currently have a way to get a nice tightly-bound PDF of a math expression, >> and embedding PNGs will look bad. >> > > Now that we have this bug fixed, we don't need to consider any of > these alternatives. But not having correct bounding boxes for the PDF > mathtext expressions is a problem worth fixing. What is the status of > this: tried and impossible, tried but haven't figured it out, haven't > tried, etc? Jouni, is this something you could take another look at? > > I don't think this is a PDF problem necessarily. I only meant that there is no mathtext2pdf (equivalent to mathtext2png). It would need to render the math to determine its bounding box (doable now), and then create a new figure of the correct size to render to. Not difficult, but potentially finicky.
We still have the problem of a lack of baseline output from mathtext (but that exists regardless of backend). > In a perfect world, we would have mathtext format our math using the > pdf backend for the mathtext expressions in the spirit of "what you > see is what you get", but I don't consider this to be a high priority > now that users can build some docs (html) w/o a latex install. Since > building PDF requires latex anyhow, using our own mathtext is only a > marginal benefit. > Right -- that's how I see it, too. Plus having LaTeX render the math means that everything looks like it belongs (the right sizes, spacing etc.) Cheers, Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel