On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu>wrote:
> per freem wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > To annotate my figures with Greek letters, I use the following:
> >
> > import matplotlib
> > matplotlib.use('PDF')
> > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> > from matplotlib import rc
> > rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
> > plt.rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True
> > rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']})
> > plt.rcParams['pdf.fonttype'] = 42
> > # plot figure
> > # ...
> > # annotate figure
> > plt.xlabel(r'$\mu$ = 50')
> > plt.ylabel(r'$\sigma$ = 1.5')
> >
> > This makes the equal symbol and everything to the right of it in the
> > Helvetica font, as intended, and the Greek symbols default to the
> > usual TeX font (which I believe is Times New Roman.)
> >
> > How can I make it so the font used for the Greek letters is the
> > "Symbol" font instead? It's important for me not to have it appear in
> > the default Times font of TeX.
> >
> There's information about changing the math font here:
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/mathtext.html#fonts
>
> You may be able to use "Symbol" as a custom font, but this is untested,
> as far as I know. It would have to contain a Unicode mapping to be usable.
>
> Mike
>
Hello,
Any ideas why this piece is not showing properly?
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from pylab import *
plot([1]*5)
xlabel(u'μ = 50')
ylabel(u'σ = 1.5')
show()
>
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> Operations and Engineering Division
> Space Telescope Science Institute
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>
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