On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: > I've drafted a MEP with a plan to improve some of the text and font handling > in matplotlib. > > I'd love any and all feedback.
nice writ-up and thanks for workign on this. One idea (alternative?) would be to put more effort into the "mathtext" renderer. TeX itself, of course does an outstanding job of laying out text, paragraphs, etc. I'm assuming that the core stuff is already in mathtext, so adding better support for regular old non-math text would be a less-than-huge deal. And we still wouldn't need the full how-to-split-pages and all that code for MPL. Not sure about properly handling unicode issues, though modern TeX does support unicode. With a fully-function mathtex, it could be the default (only?) text layout system for MPL, simplifying things quite a bit. ... just a thought. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
