Re: [matplotlib-devel] latex symbols as markers

2010-01-11 Thread Michael Droettboom
Good point. Fixed in r8076. Cheers, Mike tcb wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Sorry the long delay in replying to your mail. > > The changes look good, and it seems to produce good output. > > There is just one small change I would make- since the markers are not > quite properly centered on the points: >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] latex symbols as markers

2010-01-11 Thread tcb
Hi Mike, Sorry the long delay in replying to your mail. The changes look good, and it seems to produce good output. There is just one small change I would make- since the markers are not quite properly centered on the points: Index: lib/matplotlib/lines.py ==

Re: [matplotlib-devel] latex symbols as markers

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Droettboom
tcb wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I'm not sure about the textpath functionality. Most of the 'easy' > marker types have been specified already (triangles, squares etc). Are > the latex symbols defined somewhere that you could easily extract a > path description of them, and then pass that to the textpath c

Re: [matplotlib-devel] latex symbols as markers

2009-10-26 Thread tcb
Hi Mike, I'm not sure about the textpath functionality. Most of the 'easy' marker types have been specified already (triangles, squares etc). Are the latex symbols defined somewhere that you could easily extract a path description of them, and then pass that to the textpath code you have? This wou

Re: [matplotlib-devel] latex symbols as markers

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Droettboom
That's a very interesting idea. I actually think that with the recent textpath functionality that Jae-Joon added, we may be able to tie text and markers together without too much pain. Then it can advantage of all the performance optimizations in draw_markers. Each of the marker styles now c

[matplotlib-devel] latex symbols as markers

2009-10-25 Thread tcb
Hi, Is there some way to add support for latex symbols as markers? I think it would be an extension of the current methods for plotting markers- since I dont think all the color, edge, line style etc properties would be relevant (or even possible). However, it would allow arbitrary symbols (at le