On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Michael Droettboom<md...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> It would be great to restore to_mask to mathtex as it can be useful for
> GUI frameworks that require both an RGB and A buffer (rather than a
> single RGBA buffer).  Its implementation should be pretty
> straightforward, since you already have image buffer output in mathtex.
>
> There may be a way to re-write menu.py to not depend on mathtex -- such
> as using ft2font directly.  But since mathtex will become a hard
> requirement for matplotlib anyway, it may be easiest to just add to_mask
> and update the example to use the new mathtex APIs.

The menu code was a work in progress that I never finished, so
maintaining it is not a priority.  But supporting the to_mask in
mathtext would be nice.

JDH

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