On Wednesday 23 May 2007 11:17:14 am Trevis Crane wrote:
> I have two questions about matplotlib.
>
> 1) It's pretty easy to include text on a graph, but are LaTex strings
> supported? That is, I want to write something like this on my plot:
> '\Phi_0 = blah...'. When passing a LaTex command as part of text string
> to be written on a plot in MatLab, it interprets this and displays the
> (in this case) Greek symbol. Any suggestions on how this is or should
> be done with matplotlib?
matplotlib supports mathtext strings, like r'$\Phi_0 = e^{i\pi}$'. Currently,
if you want to mix mathmode and regular mode, r'for example: $\Phi_0 =
e^{i\pi}$', you need to enable usetex in your matplotlibrc file. usetex
requires latex, ghostscript, dvipng to be properly installed, see
http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/UsingTex for more details.
> 2) How do I format how tick mark labels are displayed? I have a plot
> whose x-axis runs from 0 to 8.5e-5. But the tick mark labels are
> 0,0.00001,0.00002,0.00003... This is rather unsightly, but I haven't
> found a way to specify the format of these numbers.
That's a new problem. Eric, it looks like some of your recent changes to
ticker.py had some unintended side-effects. Do you have time to look into it?
Darren
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
_______________________________________________
Matplotlib-users mailing list
Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
