Re: [matplotlib-devel] First SVN commit (for me and mathtext2.py :)

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

Hi Edin,

On Sunday 20 August 2006 10:21 am, Edin Salkovi=C4=87 wrote:
> The SoC deadline (for code) is tommorow (Aug 21st.), so I decided to comm=
it
> what I have done till now to the repository.
>
> JDH is going on a vacation and will not be able to review it for at
> least a week,
> but I had to commit it before 21st. Aug - that's the SoC rules. Hopefully,
> I'll be adding new stuff the next week (and after), but that doesn't
> count as part of SoC anymore...
>
> Since this is my first commit, can anyone please test it. I tested it
> only on my windows box.
>
> I changed
> __init__.py,
> mathtext.py
> CHANGELOG
>
> I added
> mathtext2.py
> mathtext2_demo.py
>
> Anyone who wants to test the new mathtext2 has to add the following line(=
s)
> to the matplotlibrc (mathtext2 is disabled by default):
>
> mathtext2:   True            # Needed to enable the new mathtext
>
> # Font lines, feel free to change or uncomment (BaKoMa is used by default)
> mathtext.rm     :   FreeSerif.ttf
> mathtext.it     :   FreeSerifItalic.ttf     # Text italic
> mathtext.tt     :   FreeMono.ttf    # Typewriter (monospaced)
> mathtext.mit    :   FreeSerifItalic.ttf     # Math italic
> mathtext.cal    :   FreeSansOblique.ttf # Caligraphic
> mathtext.nonascii:  FreeSerif.ttf # Used for \sum, \infty etc.
>
> The FreeFont fonts (or any other for that matter) have to be downloaded a=
nd
> put into the mpl-data dir. The default settingsuse the current bakoma
> fonts, and they play pretty well with FreeSerif.ttf as the nonascii
> (unicode) font.
>
> so I recommend you just put the line
> mathtext.nonascii:  FreeSerif.ttf
>
> and comment out the rest (experiment a little with fonts).
>
> Tonight I plan to add support for fractions. Beware that the only
> supported backend for now is Agg.
>
> mathtext2_demo.py is attached

I just updated my svn repository, added the lines you indicated to my rc fi=
le,=20
but when I run the example, mpl can't find the freefonts that I already hav=
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installed on my system. The freefonts I have installed are not ttf, but pfb=
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Where should we download from? ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/gimp/pub/gimp/fonts=
,=20
for example? I dont think those are what I am looking for. Do they really=20
need to go in mpl-dir? It would be more appropriate if they could be=20
installed somewhere like /usr/share/fonts.