Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using otf fonts in matplotlib

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

Using anything but the CM and STIX fonts in mathtext ultimately leads to 
a world of pain and I consider it "unsupported", because there are 
custom tweaks to get the alignment working that end up being missing.

However, if you really want to try it you can set the following rcParams:

   mathtext.default: regular # Use the same font for math as regular text
   mathtext.fontset: custom # Don't pull any glyphs from cm or stix

Then you can write your string entirely in math syntax, eg.:

   r"$VCD_{strat} O_3 [DU]$"

Mike

On 10/10/2011 12:17 PM, Andreas H. wrote:
>>> I would like to use .otf fonts for typesetting text (axes, titles,
>>> labels,
>>> legends, ...) in matplotlib. Is this possible? If yes, how?
>> Yes.  Put the font somewhere in your font search path.  (Where that
>> would be depends on your platform, but for user-local fonts, use
>> "~/.fonts" on Linux, "~/Library/Fonts" on OS-X, I don't recall on
>> Windows, but Googling should give you something).  You will need to
>> delete the matplotlib font cache so that it will discover new fonts.
>> This lives in "~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache" on Unix platforms.  Then
>> you can change the default font family by setting the "font.family"
>> rcParam to the name of the font.
> Cool, this seems to work :)
>
> Now, I only have one issue:
>
> If I set a text, for example via
>
>     ylabel(r"VCD$_{\sf strat}$ O$_{\sf 3}$ [DU]")
>
> the subscript "strat" actually gets typeset in my OTF font, but the subset
> "3" gets typeset in the standard math font (the fonts Cmr10 and Cmss10 get
> embedded in the PDF file). This doesn't look nice, because I am using
> MyriadPro, which is a sans-serif, while the CMR/CMSS fonts are serif fonts
> ...
>
> Any ideas how to solve this?
>
> Cheers!
> Andreas.
>
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