Dear Matt,
thank you for your hints. If I understand you right, Matlibplot should be able to display the french characters and there is no need for \acute etc. That's interesting and I would appreciate it. However e.g. title('Température') does not work properly. Instead of é I see a rectangle on the screen. May be something is wrong with my installation?
Regards
Gerhard
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Von: Matt Newville [mailto:newville@…189…]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Januar 2005 18:03
An: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Mayer Gerhard
Betreff: Re: [Matplotlib-users] French characters
I think you'd have to add \acute to the overunder dictionary in mathtext.py and then use as '\acute{e}'. That assumes that a "`"
is close enough for the accent mark. If so, it's possible that other accent marks as well, though I don't see how to get an umlaut or cedilla.
As a general question, can mathtext directly access characters in the TeX font tables? Would that simply involve adding more entries to latex_to_bakoma in _mathtext_data.py??? If so, that might make it easier to reproduce many of the TeX accents (including umlaut), as the double-dot and acute marks have actual places in the font tables. It migh also make \AA (\Angstrom) less of a corner case.
--Matt
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Mayer Gerhard wrote:
Hi all,
I cannot figure out howto use french characters using the Agg backend.
E.g. title(r'Temp \\acute e rature') does not work.
Has anyone an idea howto do it?
Gerhard