Re: [Matplotlib-users] Single quotes in xlabel

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Monday 09 October 2006 12:45, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "A" == A S Budden <ab...@gm...> writes:
>
>     A> Dear all, I've just started using matplotlib for some data
>     A> processing and plotting and have ported one of my existing
>     A> Matlab scripts to python.  However, I have been unable to get
>     A> the following working properly in python.  In Matlab, this
>     A> works:
>
> Have you tried \prime ?

Al, if you have latex/ghostscript/dvipng on your system, you can set 
text.usetex = True in your rc settings, and you will get the results you 
expect. See http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/UsingTex for more 
information.

Darren

P.S.: It looks like this is somewhat improved with mathtext2, which is still 
in development.