[ That was meant for the list, sorry ]
On 7/26/07, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm on the fence as to how to handle this case. The majority of our
> users will think of $ as the US currency symbol, and will have never
> heard of TeX. Option 1 is to educate them, and require them to \$
> quote that symbol. Option 2 is to enable a text property eg mathtext,
> and do
>
> text(x, y, 'what is the $\sin(x)$', mathtext=True)
>
> Option 3 is to try and be clever, and interpret an even number of
> unquoted dollar symbols as mathtext, or any string that has a quoted
> dollar sign symbol as mathtext, else assume plain text. Option 4 is
> to treat *all* strings as mathtext, but I think we would pay a pretty
> big performance hit to invoke the mathtext machinery for every piece
> of text. But it is an option. In option 4, of course, users would be
> required to quote all dollar signs, so it is related to option 1 but
> slightly different in how it treats strings with no dollar signs.
>
> I'm not too keen on the text(x, y, Math('string')) proposal, which is
> a little outside the normal matplotlib approach.
>
> Michael, do you have a preference or an alternate proposal?
I'm not Michael, but I s'pose I can still speak :)
This sounds to me like a good case for Guido's mantra of NOT putting
keywords in functions and instead just making two separate functions.
Why not just
text(x,y,"This year I lost a lot of $$$")
mtext(x,y,r"This year I lost \$$\infty$")
? Explicit is better than implicit and all that...
cheers,
f
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