Re: [Matplotlib-users] trailing space in text string stripped, making it impossible to right-pad my text

[Christopher Barrington-L. <cpb...@gm...>]

Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> 
> This works if you use recent version of matplotlib with preview mode
> on. Without the preview mode (or other similar ways to report the
> dimension of the text from TeX side), I don't think this can be done.
> 
> 

Ok, thanks. I hope I am understanding. Would you be able to point me to a
link to info on what you mean by "preview mode"? 
By recent version you mean something in the svn, I guess?




> This does not. First of all, "~" and "\mbox" are not supported if
> usetex=False and I guess never will be. On the other hand,
>  as far as I can see, the whitespace stripping is not done in mpl
> side. And I have a feeling that it may be the freetype library. mpl
> uses  FT_Glyph_Get_CBox to calculate the extents of the text and I
> think this seems to fail when there is a trailing spaces. This is
> beyond me I hope other developers have better idea.
> 
> 

Thanks, I too hope some other developers chime in!



> So, Christopher,
> I guess your best chance is to upgrade and use preview mode, or use
> annotate function.
> 

I am not clear how annotate helps. If I am willing to specify x,y locations,
I can do that with text() as well, no?. It's still a matter of calculating
how big a piece of whitespace should end up, roughly.

Thanks, JJ!


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