Re: [Matplotlib-users] Old-style/text figures

2014-11-12 Thread Benjamin Root
This looks neat. I am sorry you haven't gotten a response back yet from others on the mailing list. What would be really neat is if we could generalize this to not require TeX/PGF (i.e., find a freetype font that does this) and make a matplotlib style file. Cheers! Ben Root On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Old-style/text figures

2014-11-11 Thread Andy Buckley
Hmm, no reply again. Are these emails getting through? I appreciate this was quite a long and detailed question -- maybe I should raise these sorts of things on the MPL dev list instead? I'm happy to contribute on improving the (TeX) font control, if there's interest, but for now found a workaroun

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Old-style/text figures

2014-11-03 Thread Andy Buckley
Hi again, I didn't see any on-list answer, but got an off-list suggestion to use an rc parameter to set a LaTeX preamble. I played around a little and thought I should report on what I found, especially since it seems that there is room for improvement here and I'd be interested to help. Here are

[Matplotlib-users] Old-style/text figures

2014-10-27 Thread Andy Buckley
Hi, I'm using MPL to implement a new plotter for a project has so far been using a custom-written LaTeX+pstricks script. Despite being slow and a bit hacky, the output is really quite nice and I want to try and emulate it as closely as possible via MPL; for example: https://users.hepforge.org/~bu