Re: [matplotlib-devel] mathtext rotation

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On 8/30/07, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

> > ...but if we need to go into agg anyway, why not use Agg's font handling
> > capabilities directly?
>
> Perhaps historical reasons.  I wonder if they're still relevant.

Yes, that's it.  agg did not have font support when the agg backend
was added.  It was always easier to continue adding and extending what
we had (ft2font) than to port over to agg's support.

JDH