Hi Mathieu,
Are there perhaps some latex packages you could load using the
text.latex.preamble rc setting? This setting is officially unsupported, but
it would be much easier than adding an option to use the xetex executable
(which would probably not be officially supported by mpl).
Darren
On Wednesday 25 June 2008 09:02:41 am Mathieu Leplatre wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to follow your tips regarding matplotlib and arabic
> support.
>
> Indeed matplotlib with Latex and unicode work great together :
>
> #-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> from pylab import *
> from matplotlib import rcParams
> rcParams['text.usetex']=True
> rcParams['text.latex.unicode']=True
> figure(1)
> plot([1,2,3])
> title(unicode(r'\textit{éèê}','utf8'))
> show()
>
> But then I came to the conclusion that Latex did not support Arabic.
> This few lines generate a "missing def" error.
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{ucs}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> \title{éèê هه}
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
> \end{document}
>
> Is it related to my installation ? (Ubuntu with package
> texlive-latex-recommended)
> I asked here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5258457
>
> Somebody pointed me out XeTeX, which has wider support for Unicode.
> www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb27-2/tb87kew.pdf
>
> I was wondering if there could be a way to get matplotlib work with XeTeX.
>
> What do you think ? Is it the right track ? Should I switch to
> grandpa's gnuplot :) ?
>
> Thank you all,
>
> Mathieu.
>
> Michael Droettboom wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I believe this is a fundamental incompatibility within
> > matplotlib. matplotlib uses a very simple algorithm for layout out a
> > line of characters which assumes ltr order and all kinds of other things.
> >
> > That said, there is something you could try. Matplotlib has a "usetex"
> > mode which will do all text rendering using LaTeX. Assuming you can get
> > LaTeX to handle Arabic correctly, you can set the following in your
> > .matplotlibrc file:
> >
> > text.usetex : True
> > text.latex.unicode : True
> >
> > You'll need to install the LaTeX Unicode extension "ucs" (Ubuntu
> > probably has packages for that.) If you need to load any LaTeX packages
> > to get arabic support, you can tell matplotlib about them in your
> > matplotlibrc like so:
> >
> > text.latex.preamble: \usepackage{foo}
> >
> > If Arabic-encoded-as-Unicode doesn't work, you could try setting
> > "text.latex.unicode" to False, and then typing your Arabic strings using
> > one of the other Arabic encodings that LaTeX understands.
> >
> > Please let us know if you have success or hit another roadblock.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mike
> >
> > Burhan Khalid wrote:
> >> Hello All:
> >>
> >> Having an issue with Arabic font support using matplotlib. When using
> >> the correct font, Arabic characters are displayed, but are not joined
> >> together
> >> properly; and they are also not in the correct order (the font rendered
> >> is ltr, but Arabic is a rtl language). Is this an issue with the render
> >> I am using, or some incompatibility within matplotlib? Sample source
> >> code used (please note, your email client should support utf8 to display
> >> the code correctly).
> >>
> >> #-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> >> from pylab import *
> >> figure(1) # the first figure
> >> plot([1,2,3])
> >> figure(1) # figure 1 current
> >> title(u'برهان',name='Times New Roman') # figure 1 title
> >> savefig('test.png')
> >> savefig('test.eps')
> >> show()
> >>
> >> Output when run from the command line:
> >>
> >> matplotlib data path /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data
> >> $HOME=/home/burhan
> >> CONFIGDIR=/home/burhan/.matplotlib
> >> loaded rc file /etc/matplotlibrc
> >> matplotlib version 0.90.1
> >> verbose.level helpful
> >> interactive is False
> >> units is True
> >> platform is linux2
> >> numerix numpy 1.0.3
> >> font search path ['/usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf',
> >> '/usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/afm']
> >> loaded ttfcache file /home/burhan/.matplotlib/ttffont.cache
> >> backend TkAgg version 8.4
> >> Could not match Bitstream Vera Serif, New Century Schoolbook, Century
> >> Schoolbook L, Utopia, ITC Bookman, Bookman, Nimbus Roman No9 L, Times
> >> New Roman, Times, Palatino, Charter, serif, normal, normal. Returning
> >> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
> >>
> >> This is on a clean Ubuntu Gutsy install, using python 2.5.1.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Burhan
> >>
> >>
> >>
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