As an alternative, you could just use Unicode to insert the Greek
characters:
r"α-Fe (Someone 2003)"
The default font used by matplotlib, Vera Sans, includes a full set of
Greek characters. This, of course, requires an editor that supports
Unicode and a coding directive at the top of your source files, eg.:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
Cheers,
Mike
Eli Brosh wrote:
> Here is the use case I have in mind:
> Plotting properties of various phases of iron, I need a legend with
> greek letters and normal text:
> \alpha-Fe, Someone (2003)
>
> Now, I need the names e.g. someone to be upright.
> Also, the relbar between \alpha and Fe is shorter with normal text
> fonts than with italics.
>
> I can solve the problem by using r'\rm{\alpha-Fe, Someone (2003)}' but
> it would be easier if I could just change the defaults.
>
> Eli
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately there isn't. This is *theoretically* possible with
> the STIX fonts, but that hasn't been implemented. However, with
> the Computer Modern fonts, many of the glyphs simply aren't
> present (upright Greek, for example) to make this happen.
>
> That said, I'm not sure this is necessarily a good idea. Math has
> a set of commonly accepted conventions about when to use italic
> vs. upright that may only confuse the reader when not followed.
> Can you provide a use case?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> Eli Brosh wrote:
>
> Hello
> I there a way to change the default mathtext font from cal to rm ?
> I would like to use the rm (serif) font without stating
> rm{...} or mathrm{...}.
> Is it possible to do using the matplotlibrc ?
> can you give me an example of how this is done ?
>
> Thanks
> Eli
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