Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to use STIX fonts in matplotlib plots?

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

David,

IIRC, we were just starting to investigate how to produce retina graphics.
Perhaps you might be able to help Mike D and Michael de Hoon with there
efforts because very few of us have retina displays.

Cheers!
Ben Root
On Jul 20, 2013 10:43 AM, "David P. Sanders" <dps...@ci...>
wrote:

> I find the default font used in matplotlib horrible. We should be able to
> do much better these days.
>
> One very interesting option, at least for standard (paper) publishing, is
> the STIX fonts, which is a Times-like font set promoted by several
> publishers.
>
> There are various options in matplotlib, such as
> matplotlib.rcParams["mathtext.fontset"], which allow the option "stix",
> but I have not been able to get it to work. Can anybody please help me with
> this -- what is required?
>
> I have the STIX otf or ttf installed on my Mac, but I don't seem to manage
> to get the LaTeX versions installed -- installing LaTeX fonts is *so*
> disgusting (is there some helper script for that?).
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
> David.
>
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