Re: [matplotlib-devel] STIX fonts (status with matplotlib)

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2007 1:36 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> 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 to write the scripts to do it,
>> and then re-run them when the STIX fonts are updated.
> 
> Sounds good to me -- if there were a big savings in file size I
> thought it might be worth looking into, but he who writes the code
> gets the most votes :-)

Not sure -- Maybe we were talking about different things...  I was 
talking about actually removing individual glyphs from the files -- that 
may result in much larger savings percentage-wise, but would be 
labor-intensive.  Removing whole font files is quite easy (and I 
actually did remove the files that mathtext can't currently access).

> I think we should make stix the default for mathtext.fontset once you
> get these changes incorporated, presuming PDF and PS work as expected
> -- is there any reason not to?

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 tested much unless people are nudged into using it ;)  I'd 
encourage people on this list to kick it around a bit before we widen 
the audience.  But don't let that hold back the release -- it's always 
hard to know when to press that big red button... ;)

Cheers,
Mike

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Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
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