Re: [matplotlib-devel] Question about sphinx doc extensions

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Droettboom
Ted Drain wrote: > We're in the process of converting our documentation from doxygen (parsing > C++ and post processing w/ many huge regexp's to make it look like python) to > using sphinx. I was curious about the equation formatting extension that you > guys wrote and how it compares to the on

[matplotlib-devel] 3d idea

2008-09-11 Thread Jack Sankey
Hi guys- I'm sure you all have seen this so this information is nothing new. I've been playing with Art Of Illusion and it occurred to me that it's *very easy* to script/manipulate 3d objects in this environment, and that they have also implemented a very elegant way of mapping data into colors gra

Re: [matplotlib-devel] fancy box around text

2008-09-11 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be good if these can be included in the matplotlib. At least, > can the patch for the text.py be applied? I am happy to include this functionality, but let's build it into the standard bbox rather than introduce a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] fancy box around text

2008-09-11 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
Thanks John, I'm afraid that I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting, and will be grateful if you describe it more specifically. As of now, textbox.py has two classes (+Text class which is not needed with text.py patch). TextBoxBase and its derivatives : despite its name (which could be a poo

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Question about sphinx doc extensions

2008-09-11 Thread Ted Drain
Mike, Thanks for the info. I noticed in plot_directive.py that ipython seems to be required to build the docs. Is that absolutely needed or is it a holdover from doing something else? I'm asking because we would like to build the docs locally but don't currently install ipython. I could change