This would really be a plus. The option to use latex for
> text layout would have to be completely reworked, if it
> could be supported at all. Not that this is a critical
> feature, but in my opinion it is still necessary at this
> point for producing the highest quality plots for
> publication.
> For many people this is absolutely the killer feature of mpl
But I should add if cairo the cairo ps backend had good image support,
we could put 6000 dpi images into the ps backend for the latex
mathtext which would be fine.
JDH