Re: [matplotlib-devel] units

2007-11-05 Thread Ted Drain
John, Sorry about the late replay - I've been out sick. I don't mean to turn this around on you but it might be best if we could define what mathematical operations MPL requires from a type. Our types support all "reasonable" math ops. The examples of things that have caused problems in the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] STIX fonts (status with matplotlib)

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Droettboom
STIX fonts seem to be break with PDF or PS font subsetting. Looking into it... Cheers, Mike Michael Droettboom wrote: > The STIX fonts are now passing the mathtext_examples.py unit test. This > font blends much better with fonts like Times. > > The rcParam "mathtext.use_cm" (which is new sin

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Transforms branch

2007-11-05 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:55:09PM -0400, Darren Dale wrote: > > Beta versions of tarballs are on > > http://code.enthought.com/downloads/source . I will make cleaner tarballs > > of the release that was done last week when I get back home. These > > tarballscan be used for eg packaging, or integra

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Inches?

2007-11-05 Thread Paul Kienzle
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:43:55PM +0100, Olivier Verdier wrote: > This is much worse than I thought. The "inch" unit is used in many places in > matplotlib. In particular in `figure` and `savefig`. Please, please consider > allowing other units. Let me emphasise this once more: in Europe, and, I >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] OS X Leopard install, snag

2007-11-05 Thread Christopher Barker
John Hunter wrote: > Now for my next problem: I built zlib, libpng an freetype from source > and I get a William Kyngesburye is building and maintaining a nice set of Universal Frameworks of various libs that are more or less standard on Linux: http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/unixport/framewor

Re: [matplotlib-devel] STIX fonts (status with matplotlib)

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Droettboom
The STIX fonts are now passing the mathtext_examples.py unit test. This font blends much better with fonts like Times. The rcParam "mathtext.use_cm" (which is new since the last release) has been replaced with "mathtext.fontset" which takes either "cm", "stix" or "custom". To use the STIX fon

Re: [matplotlib-devel] STIX fonts

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Droettboom
John Hunter wrote: > On 11/5/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If we go the route of wrapping the API (which would be better anyway, since then we could look for fonts in our own custom font directory), it would just be like the existing dependencies on freetype and lib

Re: [matplotlib-devel] remove ipython hack?

2007-11-05 Thread John Hunter
On 11/4/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, Fernando, > > Is it OK to remove the hack now? In pyplot.py: > > # a hack to keep old versions of ipython working with mpl after bug > # fix #1209354 This was added in 2005 when mpl was at 0.83 and ipython was at 0.6.15, so yes, it is OK

Re: [matplotlib-devel] STIX fonts

2007-11-05 Thread John Hunter
On 11/5/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If we go the route of > > > wrapping the API (which would be better anyway, since then we could look > > > for fonts in our own custom font directory), it would just be like the > > > existing dependencies on freetype and libpng. Not a big

Re: [matplotlib-devel] STIX fonts

2007-11-05 Thread Darren Dale
On Monday 05 November 2007 8:49:01 am Darren Dale wrote: > On Monday 05 November 2007 8:07:04 am you wrote: > > Darren Dale wrote: > > > On Sunday 04 November 2007 8:50:48 am Michael Droettboom wrote: > > >> This is maybe another push in the direction of using fontconfig (which > > >> claims to sup

Re: [matplotlib-devel] STIX fonts

2007-11-05 Thread Darren Dale
On Monday 05 November 2007 8:07:04 am you wrote: > Darren Dale wrote: > > On Sunday 04 November 2007 8:50:48 am Michael Droettboom wrote: > >> This is maybe another push in the direction of using fontconfig (which > >> claims to support otf fonts already). I'd really prefer to go in that > >> dire

Re: [matplotlib-devel] STIX fonts

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Droettboom
Darren Dale wrote: > On Sunday 04 November 2007 8:50:48 am Michael Droettboom wrote: >> This is maybe another push in the direction of using fontconfig (which >> claims to support otf fonts already). I'd really prefer to go in that >> direction rather than continue to tack on partial reimplementat