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Freddie Witherden <fr...@wi...> writes:
> The question is how important are these as a feature? While I can add 
> support for them into mathtex I am unsure exactly how useful they are. 
You can get really small output using the core fonts, which I'm sure
some users appreciate. They are also problematic, since not everyone has
a copy of the exact right fonts, and the viewer program substitutes
something else that has (or should have) the same metrics. Thus a figure
that you like on screen might look very different when printed (possibly
via a professional printer that does have a copy the real Helvetica
etc). To avoid such problems, some publishers require all fonts to be
embedded, and the latest version of the PDF spec deprecated the use of
the core fonts without embedding them.
-- 
Jouni K. Seppänen
http://www.iki.fi/jks

Hi all,
Currently mathtex does not have support for anything other than 
TrueType fonts. However, matplotlib can make use of the 14 'core' 
fonts that are part of the PS/PDF specs. The metrics for these fonts 
come from AFM files.
The question is how important are these as a feature? While I can add 
support for them into mathtex I am unsure exactly how useful they are. 
Mathtex will always be built with FT2Font (FreeType) so it does not 
have any advantages dependency-wise.
Hence, I am interested if there is a demand/need for them.
Regards, Freddie.

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Jouni K. Seppänen <jk...@ik...> writes:
> I now have two different implementations in two branches of my
> github repository (patches attached):
>
> http://github.com/jkseppan/matplotlib/tree/boilerplate
> http://github.com/jkseppan/matplotlib/tree/autoboiler
I finally committed the "boilerplate" variant. It seems to pass the
tests in pylab_examples, but now might be a good time for everyone to
take a look to see if I have broken anything.
-- 
Jouni K. Seppänen
http://www.iki.fi/jks