Re: [Matplotlib-users] sans-serif tick labels

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Thursday 23 November 2006 12:23 am, Christian Kristukat wrote:
> Christian Kristukat <ckkart@...> writes:
> > Darren Dale <dd55 <at> ...> writes:
> > > We tried supporting sans-serif ticklabels with usetex a while back, and
> > > it turned out to be a headache. I'll have a look at cmbright, but no
> > > promises.
> >
> > Thanks. Btw., I didn't know about cmbright before looking at this
> > problem. It seems to be part of most tex distributions, e.g. tetex,
> > miktex.
>
> I kept on experimenting and now ps output works, too. However it was
> necessary to install the type1 version of the cmbright fonts, which are
> unfortunately not part of tetex. They are available here:
> http://hannes.boehm.org/LaTeX/
> I don't know if it is possible to have them outside the regular tetex tree
> and make tex use them so that they could be shipped with matplotlib.
> Or is that solution not acceptable at all?

I don't think it is possible to accept this as a solution to include in mpl. 
No license information is listed with the type1 fonts you linked to, but 
Micropress charges for a version of type1 cmbright fonts. Plus, even if the 
licensing was not an issue, we'd have to deal with installing them into the 
localtexmf tree and then run texhash to refresh tex's database of installed 
fonts, I see lots of potential for problems.

Darren