Re: [Matplotlib-users] Prompt in MPL

[Mark B. <ma...@gm...>]

I notice the alignment problem.
But it looks like you are close.
On my machine (win32), the 'enter' key didn't work either. It works like a
backspace. That sounds like what Matthias reported.
Mark

On 6/5/07, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On 6/5/07, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > I worked on this some time ago, I never got to the point where I
> > thought it was ready for production but it is  close.  There is a
> > problem if usetex is enabled, because partial tex strings will cause
> > errors.  But you can use it with regular text or plain text.
>
> Typo: "plain text" was meant to be "math text"
>
> Now I remember what really bothered me about this widget, and it
> wasn't just the usetex problem.  The problem is that mpl has three
> different vertical alignment methods for text: top, bottom and center.
> None of them are right for a text box: you want baseline.  Try typing
> "thinking" into the text box and watch what happens when you add and
> remove the "g".  We do need to support baseline alignment for text, so
> if someone has an interest in adding this it would be a very useful
> feature, not just for a text box for for text alignment (eg tick
> labels) in general.
>
> See the image of the "g" at
> http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/glyphs/glyphs-3.html
> for a visual representation -- hwat I am calling the "baseline" they
> refer to as the "origin" in that graph.  Our default alignment should
> be "origin" or "baseline" but we don't have support for that.
>
> JDH
>