Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with usetex & \color

[Jae-Joon L. <lee...@gm...>]

>
> The resulting graph is not colored -- but in the directory
> ~/.matplotlib/tex.cache/ the text is green, both in the dvi and the png
> file!
>
> It therefore seems to me that this is not completely hopeless but I
> cannot figure out how to proceed.
>

As far as I know, in matplotlib, all the tex png output is treated as
grey  internally (the only exception I know of is ps backend, e.g.,
your example will show you a correct color if you save it as ps). I
guess this may have been a design decision.
As far as I can see, MPL currently does not support texts with varying
font properties (size, color, font).
One possible workaround for this could be using the latex typesetting
as you tried. However, supporting this within the current text
framework of matplotlib would be difficult and may not be a good idea.


However, I guess there are a few workarounds you may consider to use
(but unfortunately I think none of them are easy to work with). So, if
you describe where you intend to use multi-color text, I'll try to
give some example appropriate for your situation. Multi-color text in
figure title or simple annotation would be relatively simple.
Multi-color text in legend label seems to be more difficult, but
should be doable.

-JJ