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GeezerVison is showing github.com — Support {lua,xe}tex as alternative usetex engine. by anntzer · Pull Request #29807 · matplotlib/matplotlib Conversation
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| r"\ifpdftex", | ||
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| r"\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2212}{\ensuremath{-}}", | ||
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Moving this would be a behaviour change, wouldn't it? I don't recall which usepackage wins though. Also, do we not want to allow a preamble for other engines?
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I don't think moving the font preamble after inputenc & DeclareUnicodeCharacter would really make a difference for latex, and there's no behaviour change for xe/lualatex as these weren't supported before.
However, it is correct that there's a bit of behavior design that needs to be decided here, which is what is the default font for xe/lualatex? Right now the behavior for latex is: pick one of the few supported fonts (PSNFSS) that more or less matches the rcParams settings, defaulting to computer modern serif (as the default rcParam, DejaVu Sans, is not supported). Note that the Text object's FontProperties is not used (except for the fontsize).
For xel/lualatex, right now this PR does the same thing, and we could very well just document "set rcParams["text.latex.preamble"] = r"\usepackage{fontspec}\setmainfont{...}" to pick whatever font with xe/lualatex". Alternatively, a perhaps better option would be to actually use the Text object's FontProperties (which would need to be threaded down to TexManager, but that seems likely doable) and draw text using the standardly configured font (similarly to rcParams["pgf.rcfonts"] = True for the pgf backend). In that case, usetex with xe/lualatex would not use computer modern, unless the Text's FontProperties say so.
My preference would definitely be for the latter case (just use whatever fonts are configured using the normal mechanism), but I deferred this discussion (and implementation) until the preliminary parts of the work (dvi parsing) got in. Thoughts?
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I retargeted this to the text-overhaul branch because the new dvipngless codepath in agg directly provides support for xetex/luatex in the agg backend. However I am explicitly not making any request that this blocks 3.11 (it can easily come in 3.12, no baseline images are involved); the only reason I don't target this to main is to avoid pointless rebases atop commits that will not represent the relevant state when this PR gets ultimately merged. |
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Please rebase on, and re-target to, |
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Currently, this PR is mostly a proof of concept; only the svg backend
is supported (under rcParams["svg.fonttype"] = "none", the default).
However, there is a companion branch on the mplcairo repository, also
named "luadvi", which implements support for all output formats.
Example (requiring both this PR, and mplcairo installed from its luadvi
branch):
```
import matplotlib as mpl; mpl.use("module://mplcairo.qt")
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
plt.rcParams["text.latex.engine"] = "lualatex" # or "xelatex"
plt.rcParams["text.latex.preamble"] = (
# {lua,xe}tex can use any font installed on the system, spec'd using its
# "normal" name. Try e.g. DejaVu Sans instead.
r"\usepackage{fontspec}\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Pagella}")
plt.figtext(.5, .5, r"\textrm{gff\textwon}", usetex=True)
plt.show()
```
Font effects are supported by mplcairo, e.g.
`\fontspec{DejaVu Sans}[FakeSlant=0.2] abc`.
TODO:
- Fix many likely remaining bugs.
- Rework font selection in texmanager, which is currently very ad-hoc
due to the limited number of fonts supported by latex.
- Implement rendering support in the (other) builtin backends. In
particular, the Agg (and, if we care, cairo) backend will require
significant reworking because dvipng, currently used to rasterize dvi
to png, doesn't support luatex-generated dvi; instead we will need to
proceed as with the other backends, reading the glyphs one at a time
from the dvi file and rasterizing them one at a time to the output
buffer. Working on the other backends is not very high on my priority
list (as I already have mplcairo as playground...) so it would be nice
if others showed some interest for it :-)
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