per freem wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> To annotate my figures with Greek letters, I use the following:
>
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.use('PDF')
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> from matplotlib import rc
> rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
> plt.rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True
> rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
> plt.rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = 42
> # plot figure
> # ...
> # annotate figure
> plt.xlabel(r'$\mu$ = 50')
> plt.ylabel(r'$\sigma$ = 1.5')
>
> This makes the equal symbol and everything to the right of it in the
> Helvetica font, as intended, and the Greek symbols default to the
> usual TeX font (which I believe is Times New Roman.)
>
> How can I make it so the font used for the Greek letters is the
> "Symbol" font instead? It's important for me not to have it appear in
> the default Times font of TeX.
>
There's information about changing the math font here:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/mathtext.html#fonts
You may be able to use "Symbol" as a custom font, but this is untested,
as far as I know. It would have to contain a Unicode mapping to be usable.
Mike
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Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
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