Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex problem

2007-05-15 Thread Darren Dale
On Friday 11 May 2007 6:32:14 pm Michele Mazzucco wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 05:16:04 pm Michele Mazzucco wrote: I'm running matplotlib on Mac OS X and I've set text.usetex to True in matplotlibrc, but if I try to run the tex_demo I get the error shown below. If I'm right it's a

[Matplotlib-users] newline in mathtex

2007-05-15 Thread Bernhard Voigt
Dear all, is it possible to insert newlines in mathtex text? neither \newline, nor \\ seem to be understood: In [20]: text(.5,.5, r'$This is the first line \\ this is the second line$') Results in a single line. By the way, when there is an error in the tex string, the caching behind the

[Matplotlib-users] simple question: how to set the gap between label and axis

2007-05-15 Thread Mark Bakker
Sorry to bother you guys, but I cannot figure out how to set the gap between the axis label and the axis. I know it can be done. Thanks, Mark - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE

Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG vs PNG

2007-05-15 Thread kc106_2005-matplotlib
This SVG format gets better everyday. For those of you unfortunate enough not to have the choice of freedom from the M$ Monopoly, I discovered that Visio supports SVG file directly. In fact, the rendering is better then Inscape and get this: you can copy and paste *directly* over to PowerPoint

[Matplotlib-users] call for chapeters in a book about freeware/opensource in chemometrics

2007-05-15 Thread Giorgio Luciano
Dear All, me and other two colleagues will be interested in writing a tutorial book about the use of opensource/freeware software in chemometrics (mainly python oriented). I've contacted the editor at Blackwell publishing that has told me that can be interested in it and sent me the module for