RE: [matplotlib-devel] New font manager.

John Hunter writes:
> Just to summarize then to make sure we're all on the same page
> 
>  * family lists will be moved to matplotlibrc and so will be user
>    configurable.  This list can be overriden on a per-script basis
>    using the method in
>    http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#CUSTOM
> 
>  * text.fontname and the other text.font* attributes in the config
>    file and in matplotlib.__init__ are deprecated and should warn.
>    The warning should point to the appropriate web page for
>    instruction. You should use family lists rather than fontnames for
>    general/global preferences.  However, Text.set_fontname is
>    preserved and moves the named font to the head of the list
>    appropriate list using some kind of dictionary that maps names to
>    families.  
> 
>    This should satisfy Perry's concern about specifying a specific
>    font for use in a specific place.  If the font is in your system
>    path and the finder algorithm is working properly this font will be
>    used.  There is one significant caveat to this, which is that it
>    may be difficult or impossible to specify a complete dictionary
>    from names to families.  Or, are you reasonably certain you can
>    build this on the fly Paul using font properties from FT2Font?
> 
>  * font.family must be one of sans-serif, serif, monospace, cursive or
>    fantasy.  Anything else should raise
> 
>  * Paul, I think when you do the documentation, some discussion of
>    what the different families look like, what the classic examples of
>    each are Eg "Courier is an example of Monospace", and a text
>    screenshot along the lines of examples/alignment_test.py showing an
>    example from each of the families would be very helpful to users.
>    All of this could go into htdocs/fonts.html.template and/or
>    tutorial.html.template.
> 
All the above sounds good to me.

Perry