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Hello,

Has anyone done something like this?

http://www.businessfist.com/zany/grab.jpg

I've been making it with features as I need it, but if someone already
has one, I'd just get THAT.

-Jack

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:54, Stephen Walton wrote:
> Darren Dale wrote:
> >It works ok for me even if I add \rmfamily if I have
> >text.tex.engine=latex in matplotlibrc, and fails if I have it set to tex.
>
> Thanks, Darren, that turned out to be the problem, although I did not
> have a text.tex.engine directive in my matplotlibrc file and assumed it
> defaulted to latex.  Apparently it defaults to tex.  John is right in
> his followup:  if the ??family directives are going to be used, then
> latex needs to be the default tex engine.

TeX is the default, because it is a little bit faster than LaTeX (about 30% 
for the small files generated by mpl). I personally use the latex backend, I 
am more familiar with that set of commands.

Darren

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:19, Robert Kern wrote:
> Darren Dale wrote:
> > I wonder what \rmfamily is doing there, I don't see it in my copy of
> > tex_demo.py. It works ok for me even if I add \rmfamily if I have
> > text.tex.engine=latex in matplotlibrc, and fails if I have it set to tex.
> > I I'm guessing this is the source of your trouble.
>
> It comes from TexManager.get_tex_command() at my recommendation.
>
> > P.S. I'm not able to run tex_demo at all if I use the tex backend instead
> > of latex. I see that some changes were made to the font commands in
> > texmanage.get_tex_command, have these changes been tested with the tex
> > backend?
>
> Apparrently not. We should change those \??family commands to whatever the
> appopriate PlainTeX commands are.

I moved the font command stuff to make it work with latex and hide it from 
tex. I do not know how to use sans-serif fonts with plain tex, and havent 
figured out how to do so while supporting italics, boldface, etc, so 
sans-serif remains unsupported for now with the tex backend.

(My personal opinion is that if someone wants to print "my text" in sans-serif 
fonts with latex, they should do '{\sffamily my text}' just like they would 
in a regular latex document. Just my two cents.)

Darren