Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-25 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 going

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-25 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 looks

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-25 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 the TeX

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 + chaco

2007-07-25 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] rcparams/traits

2007-07-25 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 11:17:32 pm Fernando Perez wrote: On 7/24/07, Darren Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 July 2007 7:28:59 pm Fernando Perez wrote: :) That should be plenty of information. One comment: if you load : mplrc2.conf, which includes an mplrc.conf with a bogus

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 implement Knuth's TeX

[matplotlib-devel] Mathtext improvements (merging into trunk)

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Droettboom
The new mathtext with an underlying TeX-like box model is passing all unit tests for all backends. I'm now at a point where I'd like to merge this back into the trunk, but I'd like some feedback as to how to best deal with the backward-incompatible change wrt font changes. (This was discussed

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Mathtext improvements (merging into trunk)

2007-07-25 Thread John Hunter
On 7/25/07, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new mathtext with an underlying TeX-like box model is passing all unit tests for all backends. I'm now at a point where I'd like to merge this back into the trunk, but I'd like some feedback as to how to best deal with the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Mathtext improvements (merging into trunk)

2007-07-25 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:36:17AM -0500, John Hunter wrote: * There is a lot of space between the \prod symbol and the rest of the expression and between the \mathcal{R} and the \prod symbol -- what controls this? It looks like it is being affected by the wide \prod subscript

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Mathtext improvements (merging into trunk)

2007-07-25 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the existing mathtext implementation, font style changes affect the following group. For example, in $\cal{R} x$, only the R will be in calligraphic face. In TeX, however, font style markers stay in effect until the next font style marker or the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mpl1 draft

2007-07-25 Thread John Hunter
On 7/24/07, Ken McIvor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since my original comment about traits I have been working hard to put my money where my mouth is. Attached is an experimental rendering system with an alternative transform architecture that does not require attribute change notification.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] rcparams/traits

2007-07-25 Thread Fernando Perez
On 7/25/07, Darren Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so much. I just wanted to give thorough feedback (No, I'm not *trying* to drive you crazy). Don't worry, the damage was done long ago :) More seriously, I do appreciate the feedback. It was very good to have someone at the other end

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Mathtext improvements (merging into trunk)

2007-07-25 Thread John Hunter
On 7/25/07, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been fun working through this. You may want to check out mathtext_examples.py in my branch for examples that exercise other new features. Maybe you haven't committed it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:examples pwd

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Mathtext improvements (merging into trunk)

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Droettboom
John Hunter wrote: On 7/25/07, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new mathtext with an underlying TeX-like box model is passing all unit tests for all backends. I'm now at a point where I'd like to merge this back into the trunk, but I'd like some feedback as to how to best deal