Hi all, While playing around with the TeX support in matplotlib (rc('text', usetex=True)) and the PDF backend I noticed an interesting phenomena whereby the summation symbol in my plot was rendered at a larger size than regular TeX would produce.
Taking the following example as my basis http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/tex_demo.html I created a PDF and compared it, in Evince to a PDF with an equivalent math section created by LaTeX. Overlaying the two PDFs results in the following: http://freddie.witherden.org/drop/matplotlibtex.png The bottom is the output from matplotlib while the top LaTeX. For some reason the summation symbol is larger in matplotlib than in LaTeX. I have seemingly confirmed this with latex + dvipdfm and pdflatex. Does anyone know what might be causing this? The document font sizes are the same and I tried to match the LaTeX file as closely as possible to the one used internally by matplotlib. Polemically yours, Freddie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users