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

[Carl D. K. <cmk...@gm...>]

> >>>>> "Carl" == Carl Dr Kleffner <cmk...@gm...> writes:
> 
>     Carl> Any thoughts to use Richard Kinchs Universal Modern fonts as
>     Carl> well as the bellek fonts on his site (www.truetex.com)
>     Carl> instead of the bakoma fonts? It seems that um and bellek are
>     Carl> free to use and redistributable. This is not the case for
>     Carl> bakoma in commercial use.  The quality of the fonts are
>     Carl> excellent. Umlauts and more special signs are included
>     Carl> compared to bakoma. The charnums are different however and
>     Carl> not included on mozillas encoding page.
> 
> I would be very happy to support these fonts, especially if someone
> (you, perhaps) provided the dictionary mapping tex symbol names to
> name/charnum, as in the latex_to_bakoma dictionary in
> matplotlib._mathtext_data.  The rest is easy, and I could provide an
> rc param allowing you to select which fonts to include.  
> 
> ...
> 
> JDH
> 

I would like to try this. Due to time constraints, it may take some
time. As far as I understand I have to use the GlyphIDs as well as
the map code from cmap_format_4 to create a latex_to_umbelleek 
dictionary. Any hints from font experts are appreciated.

I would like to add codes for accented chars:  r'ä': ('umr10', <code>)
Should _mathtext_data.py contain a encoding line, i.e.
# -*- coding: latin1 -*-
to allow non-Ascii chars?

Regards

Carl

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