Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to mix maths & text in labels ?

[Nicolas G. <nic...@ne...>]

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 17:00, John Hunter wrote:
> Currently, matplotlib mathtext handling does not allow "embedded" math
> expressions.  So the whole expression must be written in math mode.
> This is a pain and something we will fix when we can.
>

Okay.

> In the next release of matplotlib, due out soon, we have support for
> mathematical expressions using TeX in the *Agg and PS backends.  So if
> you have tex (and a few other tools) installed on your systems, you
> can use it to render all the text in your matplotlib figure.
>
> In the meantime, you can do something like this
>
>   title(r'$x\ \rm{and}\ y$')
>

Yes, that works fine here ! Many thanks for the tip !

Cheers,
Nicolas