On Apr 29, 2010, at 11:51 PM, Tony S Yu wrote:
>
> 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
>
Umm, ... last email on this topic, I promise.
Is there any reason the font family rc parameter is case sensitive, while the
findfont input is case insensitive? In other words, replacing
> font.serif: CMU Serif
with
> font.serif: cmu serif
does not work. On the other hand, both of the following work:
>>> mpl.font_manager.findfont('cmu serif')
>>> mpl.font_manager.findfont('CMU Serif')
This caused me problems when debugging my earlier font troubles.
Best,
-Tony
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