[Matplotlib-users] can't install matplotlib on CentOS

2013-11-20 Thread Riccardo R.
Hi all, I'm running CentOS 5.9 and I would like to install the latest version of matplotlib (or at least 1.2). The version of python I would like to use is 2.6 and it's invokable only with `python26`, not just `python`. Now, I downloaded the tarball and installed the required packages separately

[Matplotlib-users] nicely formatted exponential in title

2013-11-20 Thread Neal Becker
I tried: plt.title (r'$\omega=%s$' % omega), where omega=-1e-5. The title says: omega=-1e-05 with the 'e' in italics, and the whole thing generally ugly. What I'd like to see is what TeX would do for $1 \times 10^{5}$. I know mpl already can nicely format numbers for axis. Can I somehow use

Re: [Matplotlib-users] nicely formatted exponential in title

2013-11-20 Thread Juergen Hasch
Have you tried latex_float() as suggested here ? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13490292/format-number-using-latex-notation-in-python def latex_float(f): float_str = {0:.2g}.format(f) if e in float_str: base, exponent = float_str.split(e) return r{0} \times

[Matplotlib-users] PGF backend

2013-11-20 Thread David Kremer
Hello ! I would like to have some hints about the matplotlib usage, especially the PGF/tikz backend. I use a latex document, and almost only tikz figures. I have a couple of problems with the matplotlib package. The first is the preemptive behaviour of the matplotlib package over the used