Re: [matplotlib-devel] mathtext rotation

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> 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.

I think that's probably still the case -- while we could do rendering 
with agg at this point, agg doesn't provide a very complete interface to 
the font's metrics.  We'd still have to maintain *some* sort of C code 
for that anyway.

IMHO, I don't see any compelling reason to reduce the code in ft2font in 
favor of agg at this point.

Cheers,
Mike