On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Tony S Yu wrote: > > On Apr 29, 2010, at 6:09 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > >> Those Computer Modern fonts (specifically the Bakoma distribution of them >> that matplotlib includes) use a custom character set mapping where many of >> the characters are in completely arbitrary locations. For regular text, >> matplotlib expects a regular Unicode font (particularly to get the minus >> sign). Since cmr10 doesn't have a standard encoding, it just won't work. > > > Hey Mike, > > Thanks for your reply. That makes sense. > > An alternative work around (I presume) would be to install the computer > modern unicode fonts (I made sure to install the ttf version). However, I'm > having trouble getting MPL to find the fonts. > > The installed font is listed when calling > `mpl.font_manager.OSXInstalledFonts()`, but it's not found when calling > `mpl.font_manager.findfont` (with various names that would make sense: > cmunrm, CMU Serif, etc.) > > Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
Sorry, I meant to reply to the list. After clearing the fontlist cache, I was able to get this fix working. Just to summarize: * download unicode version of computer modern fonts (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cm-unicode/files/)---make sure to get the ttf version * clear out the fontlist cache (rm ~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache) * add the following to ~/matplotlib/matplotlibrc: font.family: serif font.serif: CMU Serif * alternatively, you could leave the default as sans serif and use the computer modern sans serif (unicode version): font.sans-serif: CMU Sans Serif These changes produce plots where the size of normal text matches that of mathtext. Thanks for you help, Mike! -Tony
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