Hi all I came across this page: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/UsingTex which mentions using LaTeX to generate labels on plots in Matplotlib.
What I only discovered recently is that you don't need this 'usetext=1' thing in order to create captions on plots that include subscripts, etc. According to section 2.6.4 of the user's guide, you can just surround your text with $...$ to have it formatted as if it were latex. This is especially important if you're exporting SVG graphics (eg if you want to add more captioning/labelling using inkscape): the 'usetex' approach fails in that case. I wonder if someone with write access to the scipy wiki could maybe update the above page with some comments about the 'mathtext' support in Matplotlib? It might also be worth noting that the mathtext functionality doesn't support the \frac operator. Cheers JP -- John Pye School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering The University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia t +61 2 9385 5127 f +61 2 9663 1222 mailto:john.pye_AT_student_DOT_unsw.edu.au http://pye.dyndns.org/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
