Re: [Matplotlib-users] Mathtext font size difference

[Ryan M. <rm...@gm...>]

Awesome.  Thanks for the quick fix and the tip about using 'rm'.

Ryan

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

> They're actually different fonts.  The one on the left is Vera Sans, the
> one on right is Stix Sans.  There is a bug where regular (meaning Vera) text
> in math was getting mapping to Stix Sans when mathtext.fontset is set to
> stixsans.  (This should now be fixed in SVN).
>
> All that said, fixing this "bug" will mean it's now fairly easy to get an
> unintended mix of Vera Sans and Stix Sans in math expressions.  For example,
> "$A \bf{A}$" will draw the first A in Vera and the second in STIX. There's
> no easy way around that, since we don't currently support rich text for
> non-math fonts.  To avoid this mix of fonts within the $ $, you would
> probably want to set mathtext.default to "rm".
>
> Mike
>
> Ryan May wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>> Is there supposed to be a difference in the size of text printed with and
>> without mathtext?  Here's a simple script that shows what I'm talking about:
>>
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>> f = plt.figure()
>> ax1 = f.add_subplot(1,2,1)
>> ax1.set_title('Hello')
>> ax2 = f.add_subplot(1,2,2)
>> ax2.set_title('$Hello$')
>> plt.show()
>>
>> And here's my matplotlibrc:
>>
>> backend      : GtkAgg
>> mathtext.fontset : stixsans
>> font.size           : 10.0
>> savefig.dpi       : 100      # figure dots per inch
>> mathtext.default : regular
>>
>> I've attached a copy of what that looks like on my system.
>>
>> Sorry I keep finding these things. :)
>> Ryan
>>
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>> Ryan May
>> Graduate Research Assistant
>> School of Meteorology
>> University of Oklahoma
>> Sent from: Norman Oklahoma United States.
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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
Sent from: Norman Oklahoma United States.