Re: [Matplotlib-users] computer modern

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

There's no easy way to do what you ask.  You can, however, use math mode 
to get to those characters in STIX.  For example, set mathtext.fontset 
to "stix" and then:

  r'$\mathcal{Caligraphic} \mathtt{Monospace}$'

Mike

Nicolas Pourcelot wrote:
> Thanks, it works well.
>
> However, I forgot that computer modern does not include accented 
> characters (unlike latin modern), so I eventually used Stix :
>
> mpl.rc('font', family = 'serif', serif = 'STIXGeneral')
>
> By the way, is there any way to use Stix for sans-serif as well, or 
> even cursive and monospace ? I don't know how to do that, since Stix 
> seems to contain all of them in a single file (STIXGeneral.ttf) ?
>
> Nicolas
>
>
> Michael Droettboom a écrit :
>> The name of the Computer Modern Roman font that ships with matplotlib 
>> is "cmr10", so
>>
>>   mpl.rc('font', family = 'serif', serif = 'cmr10')
>>
>> should work.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Nicolas Pourcelot wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is there any way to use Computer Modern in any text in matplotlib ?
>>>
>>> In http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/customizing.html, I read 
>>> the following :
>>>
>>> #font.serif          : Bitstream Vera Serif, New Century Schoolbook, 
>>> Century Schoolbook L, Utopia, ITC Bookman, Bookman, Nimbus Roman No9 
>>> L, Times New Roman, Times, Palatino, Charter, serif
>>> #font.sans-serif     : Bitstream Vera Sans, Lucida Grande, Verdana, 
>>> Geneva, Lucid, Arial, Helvetica, Avant Garde, sans-serif
>>> #font.cursive        : Apple Chancery, Textile, Zapf Chancery, Sand, 
>>> cursive
>>> #font.fantasy        : Comic Sans MS, Chicago, Charcoal, Impact, 
>>> Western, fantasy
>>> #font.monospace      : Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Andale Mono, Nimbus 
>>> Mono L, Courier New, Courier, Fixed, Terminal, monospace
>>>   So, Computer Modern is not listed there.
>>>
>>> However, Computer Modern is used in mathtext, so I suppose there is 
>>> a way to use it also in plain text, but I can't figure it...
>>>
>>> I tried :
>>> /mpl.rc('font', family = 'serif', serif = 'computer modern roman')/
>>> but it did not work.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>
>>> Nicolas P.
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