I believe the rcParams you're referring to actually affect the (now deprecated) mathtext2, which explains why they're having no effect ;) Sorry about that.
These will soon be replaced with a new way to handle custom Unicode fonts, that is mostly working, but may not produce the best results. When typesetting math, symbols are pulled in from a number of fonts, and it looks best when all symbols are designed to match. For example, the freefonts don't have a very complete math symbol set at all. Falling back on the Computer Modern fonts for just those symbols would work, but won't look very nice. That said, a lot of users can probably do without those extended symbols altogether. The other nice thing that the Computer Modern fonts have is multiple sizes of many of the delimiters. For instance, as the '[' gets taller, it doesn't get wider as well. In any case, once I have an interface available for fonts to be replaced by the end user, I'll let you know and you can decide for yourself. I think I'm probably judging that option harshly based on the complete set of features available, not on a common subset that matters most. Cheers, Mike Rob Hetland wrote: > I would like to use sans-serif math fonts in mathtext (inspired by > Tufte -- most of his examples use sans fonts). > > Apparently there are rcParams options to be set, however, I keep > getting computer modern math fonts. I would like to use the > FreeSansOblique for the math italic font. How do I do this? > > -Rob > > > > p.s. I *love* the new mathtext -- nice work. > > > p.s.s. For those who don't pay attention to fonts, the Free font > sans series seems to be a pretty faithful reproduction of Helvetica. > I have renewed my enthusiasm for Helvetica after reading this article: > > http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html > > > ---- > Rob Hetland, Associate Professor > Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University > http://pong.tamu.edu/~rob > phone: 979-458-0096, fax: 979-845-6331 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
