Re: [matplotlib-devel] STIX fonts

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

On Thursday 01 November 2007 08:16:01 am Michael Droettboom wrote:
> That's great news.  I'm very curious how they look with mathtext.
>
> I'll be away from the office for the rest of the week.  If any of you want
> to try it in the meantime, it's theoretically possible it already works
> (assuming there's no strange metrics issues in the font.) --->  Set
> mathtext.use_cm to False, and then set mathtext.it, .rm etc. to use the
> STIX fonts.

It looks like findfont is not designed to identify OpenType fonts. The STIX 
license allows fonts to be converted, so I could probably generate ttf's, but 
maybe it would be better to modify font_manager to support otfs?

Darren