Gökhan Sever wrote: > 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'※ ') Yes -- but it can't be quite this simple, since there is already a set of strings that have specific meanings for markers, and we wouldn't want to change that behavior. In order to use an arbitrary character or string, we'd need additional syntax to indicate that's what you want to do. For example:
plt.plot(range(10), linestyle='None', marker=u'(※)') But I'm hoping someone can suggest a more obvious way to do it. Mike > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu > <mailto: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> > <mailto: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>> > <mailto: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 -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
