Thanks again. I didn't know it was complete :)
For the second idea you mean something as generic as plotting such markers?
plt.plot(range(10), linestyle='None', marker=u'※ ')
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> SVN trunk has support for mathtext as symbol markers --
>
> plot(range(10), linestyle='None', marker=r'$\clubsuit$')
>
> We could support arbitrary (non-math) text, too, fairly easily. We just
> need to invent a syntax for it.
>
> Mike
>
> Gökhan Sever wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mike. The Greek symbols become visible when I make the changes as
>> you suggested. DejaVu Sans has been installed in my system (Fedora 12). We
>> might put a note on the documentation stating to get wider Unicode coverage
>> people could install additional fonts --DejaVu Sans being one of them
>> instead of shipping the fonts with matplotlib.
>>
>> With my working unicode example, now I have three ways to show u^-2 on
>> labels. See the code at:
>> http://code.google.com/p/ccnworks/source/browse/trunk/various/threemus.py
>>
>> Not heavy Latex users like me might find unicode fonts much easier to
>> create their labels. Especially using units like #/cm^3.
>>
>> There are so many nice looking symbols in the DejaVu Sans samples at
>> http://dejavu.sf.net/samples/DejaVuSans.pdf
>> Is it possible in matplotlib to use those symbols as replacement for
>> regular markers while plotting? I recall someone was asking about using
>> Latex symbols as markers, but not sure about the fate of his question.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu<mailto:
>> md...@stsci.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the reminder. Sorry this fell through the cracks.
>>
>> The reason this worked for me and not for you is that I had set
>> (and later forgotten) font.sans-serif to the following:
>>
>> font.sans-serif : DejaVu Sans, Bitstream Vera Sans, Lucida
>> Grande, Verdana, Geneva, Lucid, Arial, Helvetica, Avant Garde,
>> sans-serif
>>
>> DejaVu Sans is the successor to Vera Sans that includes much
>> larger Unicode coverage, including the Greek characters here.
>> Vera Sans (at least the version shipped with matplotlib) does not
>> include these characters.
>>
>> It's an open question whether we want to ship the larger DejaVu
>> fonts with matplotlib (and annoy the distro packagers even further
>> who already dislike some of matplotlib's redundancy). A less
>> disruptive change may be to change the rc defaults to put DejaVu
>> in front of Vera, even though we don't ship DejaVu. This will
>> help the majority of Linux users on modern distros (where DejaVu
>> is almost always installed by default, I suspect), and still have
>> our own Vera as a fallback (albeit with a more limited character
>> set). Especially since DejaVu and Vera are basically the same
>> font, and substituting one for the other would not change the
>> appearance of plots, I think this a reasonably safe thing to do --
>> but I'd appreciate feedback in case I haven't thought through all
>> the issues.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Gökhan Sever wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Michael Droettboom
>> <md...@stsci.edu <mailto:md...@stsci.edu>
>> <mailto:md...@stsci.edu <mailto:md...@stsci.edu>>> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/28/2010 08:08 PM, Gökhan Sever wrote:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>>
>> from pylab import *
>>
>> plot([1]*5)
>> xlabel(u'μ = 50')
>> ylabel(u'σ = 1.5')
>>
>> show()
>>
>> It works for me. Can you provide a screenshot and the
>> output from
>> matplotlib with "verbose.level : debug-annoying" in your
>> matplotlibrc?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> Attached are the outputs. Which font do you activated in your
>> matplotlibrc? Currently non-active in mine.
>>
>>
>> -- Gökhan
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> -- Michael Droettboom
>> Science Software Branch
>> Operations and Engineering Division
>> Space Telescope Science Institute
>> Operated by AURA for NASA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gökhan
>>
>
> --
> Michael Droettboom
> Science Software Branch
> Operations and Engineering Division
> Space Telescope Science Institute
> Operated by AURA for NASA
>
>
--
Gökhan
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