Michael Droettboom wrote: > I wasn't aware of these fonts -- we may want to consider distributing > them with matplotlib instead (assuming the licensing makes sense) as it > would greatly simplify the mathtext code. Of course, that's a project I > may not have time for right now. > On further looking into these fonts, it seems they're not appropriate at the moment. They are missing a number of math-related symbols (such as infinity, for example). They are worth keeping an eye on, because they have a much better and more open framework for being built vs. the Bakoma fonts which are essentially "closed-source" though free for redistribution. (i.e. it makes it a lot harder to fix problems in them). Given the time, I may look into what it would take to start adding these new symbols. > I'll look into the case-sensitivity issue -- I'm not sure why that is > the case. > This has now been fixed in SVN.
Mike > Mike > > 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 >>> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/cm-unicode/files/> (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 >> >> > > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
