(Source code, png, pdf)
# This script demonstrates that font effects specified in your pdftex.map
# are now supported in pdf usetex.
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
matplotlib.rc('text', usetex=True)
def setfont(font):
return r'\font\a %s at 14pt\a ' % font
for y, font, text in zip(range(5),
['ptmr8r', 'ptmri8r', 'ptmro8r', 'ptmr8rn', 'ptmrr8re'],
['Nimbus Roman No9 L ' + x for x in
['', 'Italics (real italics for comparison)',
'(slanted)', '(condensed)', '(extended)']]):
plt.text(0, y, setfont(font) + text)
plt.ylim(-1, 5)
plt.xlim(-0.2, 0.6)
plt.setp(plt.gca(), frame_on=False, xticks=(), yticks=())
plt.title('Usetex font effects')
plt.savefig('usetex_fonteffects.pdf')
Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see Search examples)