Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Droettboom
Chris Barker wrote: > Peter Wang wrote: > >>> Ah! and some good math implementation -- What does Chaco do for >>> that? >>> > > >> We've also had this discussion internally a bit. It usually >> concludes with us wishing that someone would just port jsmath to >> Python, or implem

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-24 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:25:36PM +0900, Bill Baxter wrote: > > Well I want TeX. I want to be able to do my TeX hacks on my figures. And > > I do believe there is a lot of work to be done before you can do better > > than TeX. > What kind of TeX hacks do you want to use on figures? My TeX hacks

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-24 Thread Bill Baxter
On 7/25/07, Chris Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Wang wrote: > > We've also had this discussion internally a bit. It usually > > concludes with us wishing that someone would just port jsmath to > > Python, or implement Knuth's TeX layout rules in Python. :) > > It looks like jsmath uses

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-24 Thread Chris Barker
Peter Wang wrote: >> Ah! and some good math implementation -- What does Chaco do for >> that? > We've also had this discussion internally a bit. It usually > concludes with us wishing that someone would just port jsmath to > Python, or implement Knuth's TeX layout rules in Python. :) It lo

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-24 Thread Bill Baxter
On 7/25/07, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 05:31:17PM -0700, Chris Barker wrote: > > > output when usetex is enabled. > > > Ah! and some good math implementation -- What does Chaco do for that? I > > know I took part in a discussion about it on a Chaco list a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-24 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 05:31:17PM -0700, Chris Barker wrote: > > output when usetex is enabled. > Ah! and some good math implementation -- What does Chaco do for that? I > know I took part in a discussion about it on a Chaco list a few years > back -- at the time I argued that you're never g

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-24 Thread Peter Wang
On Jul 24, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Chris Barker wrote: >> output when usetex is enabled. > > Ah! and some good math implementation -- What does Chaco do for > that? I > know I took part in a discussion about it on a Chaco list a few years > back -- at the time I argued that you're never going to do

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-24 Thread Chris Barker
Darren Dale wrote: > I need to create plots for qt4 projects at my lab, and I > have grown really accustomed to the quality of mpl's eps So we need QT and EPS. > output when usetex is enabled. Ah! and some good math implementation -- What does Chaco do for that? I know I took part in a discu

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-24 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 6:43:03 pm Chris Barker wrote: > Sorry to play devil's advocate here, but the question remains -- MPL > developers (John, primarily, I suppose): > > Why not dump MPL1, and work on a nice pylab-like front end to Chaco, > while giving the "love" to the Kiva PS, PDF, SVG back-e