I have done some preliminary testing with the new changes to
mathtext. The STIX fonts and Arev Sans fonts (still my favorite)
both work well and produce pdf files that are readable by standard
readers (e.g., Preview) and Illustrator. I am using Mac OS X, with
the TkAgg backend.
Nice wo
On Nov 6, 2007 2:09 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No reason, other than the usual "hasn't been tested as much", and how
> that may affect the upcoming release. I anticipate more mis-mapped
> glyphs (I found some already, but I'm sure not all of them). But it
> won't get tes
John Hunter wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2007 1:36 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There is, of course, some time and memory overhead to loading larger
>> fonts, but it may not be significant.
>>
>> The other issue with subsetting the fonts before distributing them is
>> just a matter
On Nov 6, 2007 1:36 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is, of course, some time and memory overhead to loading larger
> fonts, but it may not be significant.
>
> The other issue with subsetting the fonts before distributing them is
> just a matter of person-time: someone has
John Hunter wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2007 1:05 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This fontforge script seems to do the conversion quite well:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/fontforge
>> Open($1);
>> Generate($1:r+".ttf");
>> Quit(0);
>>
>> If there are no objection
On Nov 6, 2007 1:05 PM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This fontforge script seems to do the conversion quite well:
>
> #!/usr/bin/fontforge
> Open($1);
> Generate($1:r+".ttf");
> Quit(0);
>
> If there are no objections, I'll go ahead and do that an
The STIX fonts are provided as OpenType wrappers around Adobe Compact
Font Format (CFF or Type 2) fonts (sometimes called OpenType CFF or
'OTTO' font, because of the header tag on these files). With the Agg
backend, this isn't a problem, since freetype supports these fonts
transparently. Howe
STIX fonts seem to be break with PDF or PS font subsetting. Looking
into it...
Cheers,
Mike
Michael Droettboom wrote:
> The STIX fonts are now passing the mathtext_examples.py unit test. This
> font blends much better with fonts like Times.
>
> The rcParam "mathtext.use_cm" (which is new sin
The STIX fonts are now passing the mathtext_examples.py unit test. This
font blends much better with fonts like Times.
The rcParam "mathtext.use_cm" (which is new since the last release) has
been replaced with "mathtext.fontset" which takes either "cm", "stix" or
"custom". To use the STIX fon
