Unicode & Latex Rendering in QTConsole

[Luis Cota]

I am using Anaconda 64 bit on windows 7. Rendering seems quite slow and also spawns a new shell each time something is rendered which flashes and then disappears. 

How can I get that second shell to not popup? 

Is there a way to speed up rendering with Latex output? 

Finally, what fonts would you recommend for good Unicode output and how can I reference those fonts without being able to install them system-wide?

Thanks!

[Aaron Meurer]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Luis Cota <luis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using Anaconda 64 bit on windows 7. Rendering seems quite slow and also
> spawns a new shell each time something is rendered which flashes and then
> disappears.

I guess that is it calling out the latex each time. There's currently
no way to disable that, other than init_printing(use_latex=False). We
need to have an option to disable the calling out to latex to force it
to only use matplotlib rendering (which is lower quality, but should
be much faster).

If you want the best latex experience, the best advice I can give you
is to use the notebook, which uses mathjax. If it's still slow, use
init_printing(use_latex='mathjax') to disable rendering of other
display backends.

>
> How can I get that second shell to not popup?
> Is there a way to speed up rendering with Latex output?
> Finally, what fonts would you recommend for good Unicode output and how can
> I reference those fonts without being able to install them system-wide?

The font I recommend is DejaVu Sans Mono. I have no idea how to
install it just into the qtconsole.

Aaron Meurer

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> Thanks!
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