SVN trunk has support for mathtext as symbol markers -- plot(range(10), linestyle='None', marker=r'$\clubsuit$')
We could support arbitrary (non-math) text, too, fairly easily. We just need to invent a syntax for it. Mike Gökhan Sever wrote: > Thanks Mike. The Greek symbols become visible when I make the changes > as you suggested. DejaVu Sans has been installed in my system (Fedora > 12). We might put a note on the documentation stating to get wider > Unicode coverage people could install additional fonts --DejaVu Sans > being one of them instead of shipping the fonts with matplotlib. > > With my working unicode example, now I have three ways to show u^-2 on > labels. See the code at: > http://code.google.com/p/ccnworks/source/browse/trunk/various/threemus.py > > Not heavy Latex users like me might find unicode fonts much easier to > create their labels. Especially using units like #/cm^3. > > There are so many nice looking symbols in the DejaVu Sans samples at > http://dejavu.sf.net/samples/DejaVuSans.pdf > Is it possible in matplotlib to use those symbols as replacement for > regular markers while plotting? I recall someone was asking about > using Latex symbols as markers, but not sure about the fate of his > question. > > Thanks > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu > <mailto:md...@stsci.edu>> wrote: > > Thanks for the reminder. Sorry this fell through the cracks. > > The reason this worked for me and not for you is that I had set > (and later forgotten) font.sans-serif to the following: > > font.sans-serif : DejaVu Sans, Bitstream Vera Sans, Lucida > Grande, Verdana, Geneva, Lucid, Arial, Helvetica, Avant Garde, > sans-serif > > DejaVu Sans is the successor to Vera Sans that includes much > larger Unicode coverage, including the Greek characters here. > Vera Sans (at least the version shipped with matplotlib) does not > include these characters. > > It's an open question whether we want to ship the larger DejaVu > fonts with matplotlib (and annoy the distro packagers even further > who already dislike some of matplotlib's redundancy). A less > disruptive change may be to change the rc defaults to put DejaVu > in front of Vera, even though we don't ship DejaVu. This will > help the majority of Linux users on modern distros (where DejaVu > is almost always installed by default, I suspect), and still have > our own Vera as a fallback (albeit with a more limited character > set). Especially since DejaVu and Vera are basically the same > font, and substituting one for the other would not change the > appearance of plots, I think this a reasonably safe thing to do -- > but I'd appreciate feedback in case I haven't thought through all > the issues. > > Mike > > Gökhan Sever wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Michael Droettboom > <md...@stsci.edu <mailto:md...@stsci.edu> > <mailto:md...@stsci.edu <mailto:md...@stsci.edu>>> wrote: > > On 01/28/2010 08:08 PM, Gökhan Sever wrote: > > #!/usr/bin/python > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > from pylab import * > > plot([1]*5) > xlabel(u'μ = 50') > ylabel(u'σ = 1.5') > > show() > > It works for me. Can you provide a screenshot and the > output from > matplotlib with "verbose.level : debug-annoying" in your > matplotlibrc? > > Mike > > > Mike, > > Attached are the outputs. Which font do you activated in your > matplotlibrc? Currently non-active in mine. > > > -- > Gökhan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > -- > Michael Droettboom > Science Software Branch > Operations and Engineering Division > Space Telescope Science Institute > Operated by AURA for NASA > > > > > -- > Gökhan -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
