Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: TeX in xlabel ?

[Robert K. <rk...@uc...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"Robert" == Robert Kern <rk...@uc...> writes:
> 
> 
>     Robert> [Sorry for the self-reply]
> 
> Happens to the best of us :-)
> 
>     >> Does
>     >> http://www.dessci.com/fr/support/tech/encodings/font_enc.stm
>     >> help?
> 
>     Robert> No, it in fact does not.
> 
> Well it may actually, since these pages provide the unicode indices
> for some of the cm fonts.  We already have tex symbol -> char code for
> the bakoma fonts in _mathtext_data, and they have the char code ->
> unicode mappings in their "Character List", so it should be trivial to
> build all the forward and backwards dicts we need.  Although I didn't
> see any explicit reference to bakoma, they appear to be using them;
> eg, compare the encodings at
> 
>   http://www.dessci.com/en/support/tech/encodings/texcmrom.htm
> 
> and 
> 
>   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/encoding/cmr-ttf-encoding.html
> 
> Or is it just late and I've gone soft in the head?

Okay, it does help for mapping the encoding used in the CM TrueType font 
to Unicode. This is not the same encoding used in the TFM files which is 
what I was thinking of.

-- 
Robert Kern
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