Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-03-01 Thread Michael Droettboom
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-03-01 Thread Alan G Isaac
Gökhan Sever wrote: For the second idea you mean something as generic as plotting such markers? plt.plot(range(10), linestyle='None', marker=u'※ ') On 3/1/2010 8:33 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: Yes -- but it can't be quite this simple, since there is already a set of strings that

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-03-01 Thread Michael Droettboom
Alan G Isaac wrote: Gökhan Sever wrote: For the second idea you mean something as generic as plotting such markers? plt.plot(range(10), linestyle='None', marker=u'※ ') On 3/1/2010 8:33 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: Yes -- but it can't be quite this simple, since there

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-03-01 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 3/1/2010 9:36 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: What if you want to use the letter 'o' as a marker? That to me seems like a potential source of confusion, as well as a little bit limiting. What would the escaping syntax be to use the letter 'o'? Maybe: allow only unicode strings as string

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-03-01 Thread Gökhan Sever
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.edu wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: Gökhan Sever wrote: For the second idea you mean something as generic as plotting such markers? plt.plot(range(10), linestyle='None', marker=u'※ ') On 3/1/2010 8:33 AM, Michael

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Droettboom
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,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-02-26 Thread Gökhan Sever
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Droettboom
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-02-26 Thread Gökhan Sever
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-01-28 Thread Gökhan Sever
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Michael Droettboom md...@stsci.eduwrote: per freem wrote: Hi all, To annotate my figures with Greek letters, I use the following: import matplotlib matplotlib.use('PDF') import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import rc

[Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-01-26 Thread per freem
Hi all, To annotate my figures with Greek letters, I use the following: import matplotlib matplotlib.use('PDF') import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import rc rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']}) plt.rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using the symbol font in TeX plots

2010-01-26 Thread Michael Droettboom
per freem wrote: Hi all, To annotate my figures with Greek letters, I use the following: import matplotlib matplotlib.use('PDF') import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import rc rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':['Helvetica']}) plt.rcParams['ps.useafm'] = True