On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:21 AM, William Stein wrote:
> > Sage can't depend on pyx, because pyx requires latex. So that > doesn't seem to be an option. Also, some of Sage's 2d plotting > already depends quite heavily on matplotlib, e.g., contour plots. > > Possibly we could copy the code out of pyx for drawing axis > and tick marks, if it is good. Otherwise, we can just improve > matplotlib so it can draw x,y-axis in addition to frames. But > we can't just delete that code (axes.py) from Sage until there > is something to take its place. > > William > Ah. I understand. If nobody gets to this soon, I may take a look at it and see if any of the pyx code can be ported over the Christmas holidays, but I doubt I'll be able do anything before then. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
