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

[David P. S. <dps...@ci...>]

Mike:
For some reason I didn't see your posts until now, apologies.

In fact, STIX is not supposed to "blend with" Times; rather, STIX
*replaces* Times wholesale -- i.e. they have redesigned the whole character
set. Thus labels (ticks, arbitrary text etc.) should also use STIX, even if
they don't use math.

I finally found the correct rcParams to use to achieve this:

from matplotlib import rcParams
rcParams["font.family"] = "STIXGeneral"
rcParams["mathtext.fontset"] = "stix"

It would certainly be nice if this could be done with a single setting.

It seems to me that given that STIX is already distributed with Matplotlib,
this could be a good new default to replace Bitstream Vera Sans.






On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

>  On 07/21/2013 04:12 AM, David P. Sanders wrote:
>
>
> Breaking news from the MathJax site:
>
>  The *SVG output processor* is new in MathJax version 2.0, and it uses Scalable
> Vector Graphics to render the mathematics on the page.
>
>
> Not everything that views SVG is a web browser with Javascript support, so
> doing so would break using the SVG files in Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator,
> for example.  I think that's kind of a non-starter, unfortunately.
>
>
>
>  Mike: Could we use this to finally render all text in STIX *without*
> using an external TeX installation? This would be fantastic!
>
>
> You already can render all text in STIX without an external TeX
> installation.  That's the purpose of the mathtext support in matplotlib.  I
> agree it has the one wart that the default font also needs to be set when
> using stix for the math, but beyond that, it does already work today.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
>
>  David
>
>
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