[matplotlib-devel] How to find references to examples?

2014-07-15 Thread David P. Sanders
27;r', encoding='utf-8') as fd: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/david/development/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/api/legend_demo.py' -- Dr. David P. Sanders Profesor Titular "A" / Associate Professor Departamento de Física, Facultad de

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to use STIX fonts in matplotlib plots?

2013-08-01 Thread David P. Sanders
th a single setting. It seems to me that given that STIX is already distributed with Matplotlib, this could be a good new default to replace Bitstream Vera Sans. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 07/21/2013 04:12 AM, David P. Sanders wrote: > > > Breaki

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Any IPython issues?

2013-07-24 Thread David P. Sanders
Great, thanks Paul -- much better conduit solution :) On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Paul Ivanov wrote: > Hi David, everyone, > > David P. Sanders, on 2013-07-24 08:10, wrote: > > Just wanted to say that I am currently at the IPython > > developers' meeting

[matplotlib-devel] Any IPython issues?

2013-07-24 Thread David P. Sanders
Hi, Just wanted to say that I am currently at the IPython developers' meeting in case, so I can act as a conduit in case anybody has any suggestions / comments / bugs related to the matplotlib--IPython interaction. David. -- Dr. David P. Sanders Profesor Titular "A" / Asso

[matplotlib-devel] No plot output when running a script from another script

2013-07-21 Thread David P. Sanders
ndow) when run with python A.py from the terminal. A.py does include plt.show() Could an expert on backends help, please! Thanks David. -- Dr. David P. Sanders Profesor Titular "A" / Associate Professor Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de M

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to use STIX fonts in matplotlib plots?

2013-07-21 Thread David P. Sanders
Breaking news from the MathJax site: The *SVG output processor* is new in MathJax version 2.0, and it uses Scalable Vector Graphics to render the mathematics on the page. Mike: Could we use this to finally render all text in STIX *without* using an external TeX installation? This would be fantast

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to use STIX fonts in matplotlib plots?

2013-07-21 Thread David P. Sanders
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > David, > > IIRC, we were just starting to investigate how to produce retina graphics. > Perhaps you might be able to help Mike D and Michael de Hoon with there > efforts because very few of us have retina displays. > Sure, I'm very happy to

[matplotlib-devel] Wiki page for style ideas

2013-07-20 Thread David P. Sanders
I have created a page on the Wiki for listing ideas to do with styling: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Matplotlib-style-suggestions David -- Dr. David P. Sanders Profesor Titular "A" / Associate Professor Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Universida

[matplotlib-devel] rcParams -> settings

2013-07-20 Thread David P. Sanders
Just saw Eric's post (but the mailing list has yet to update to send me the individual posts apparently, hence the new title of this email). +1 (or +100) for using 'settings' ! Here is the new version of my notebook: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/dpsanders/IPython-notebooks/mas

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Plot or Not: voting to create better matplotlibrc

2013-07-20 Thread David P. Sanders
ople to contribute new > styles that ship with MPL, and users could change styles without having to > find (and potentially merge) rcParams files from the web. Finally, people > could nominate that mature styles be made default (you could even assign > version numbers to track the defau

[matplotlib-devel] rcParams -> mpl_params

2013-07-20 Thread David P. Sanders
e notebook by creating an alias, mpl_params = rcParams. But I am advocating for changing uniformly to mpl_params (or a similar phrase) in the documentation. David -- Dr. David P. Sanders Profesor Titular "A" / Associate Professor Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Universid

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to use STIX fonts in matplotlib plots?

2013-07-20 Thread David P. Sanders
om experience). Could it not just be called mpl.parameters, or mpl.mpl_parameters, or something like that? Best, David On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:41 AM, David P. Sanders < dpsand...@ciencias.unam.mx> wrote: > I find the default font used in matplotlib horrible. We should be able

[matplotlib-devel] How to use STIX fonts in matplotlib plots?

2013-07-20 Thread David P. Sanders
LaTeX versions installed -- installing LaTeX fonts is *so* disgusting (is there some helper script for that?). Thanks and best wishes, David. -- Dr. David P. Sanders Profesor Titular "A" / Associate Professor Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

[matplotlib-devel] Plot or Not: voting to create better matplotlibrc

2013-07-20 Thread David P. Sanders
ealise how fantastic the plots can look with some of this modern styling. (Styling was mentioned several times at SciPy.) Would it be possible to put a link to this site on the matplotlib web page and encourage people to use it? Definitely time to update the defaults!! Best wishes, David. -- D

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Colored lines and examples / documentation

2013-07-07 Thread David P. Sanders
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Tony Yu wrote: > Hi David, > > Sorry for the delay in replying. It was good meeting you last week. > Comments inline with a lot of parts cut out. > Hi Tony, It was great to meet you too! > > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:13 PM, David P

[matplotlib-devel] Colored lines and examples / documentation

2013-07-04 Thread David P. Sanders
e let me know if this is (not) the right place to discuss such things. Best wishes, David. -- ** Dr. David P. Sanders Profesor Titular A / Associate Professor Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) dpsand...@gmail.com h