Hi all, I need to mix maths & text in labels such as
> title and xlabel.
> I first tried the most intuitive way:
> title(r"x and y")
> but it appeared not to work (don't focus of my silly
> sample title, the real one does make sense 
> Then I tried
> title(r"x \text{and} y")
> but I got an error related to the fact that
> is_string_like() returned False when passing my title
> string to it.
Currently, matplotlib mathtext handling does not allow "embedded" math
expressions. So the whole expression must be written in math mode.
This is a pain and something we will fix when we can.
In the next release of matplotlib, due out soon, we have support for
mathematical expressions using TeX in the *Agg and PS backends. So if
you have tex (and a few other tools) installed on your systems, you
can use it to render all the text in your matplotlib figure.
In the meantime, you can do something like this
title(r'x\\ \\rm\{and\}\\ y')
JDH
Currently, matplotlib mathtext handling does not allow "embedded" math
expressions. So the whole expression must be written in math mode.
This is a pain and something we will fix when we can.
Okay.
In the next release of matplotlib, due out soon, we have support for
mathematical expressions using TeX in the *Agg and PS backends. So if
you have tex (and a few other tools) installed on your systems, you
can use it to render all the text in your matplotlib figure.
In the meantime, you can do something like this
title(r'x\\ \\rm\{and\}\\ y')
Yes, that works fine here ! Many thanks for the tip !
Cheers,
Nicolas
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On Wednesday 01 June 2005 17:00, John Hunter wrote:
John Hunter wrote:
In the next release of matplotlib, due out soon, we have support for
mathematical expressions using TeX in the *Agg and PS backends.
Wonderful! this is great news. How have you done it? Have you written a DVI driver? or do you use TeX and associated tools to create a bitmap and put that on the image? Or something else?
-Chris
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