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

[Jouni K. S. <jk...@ik...>]

Sebastian Busch <web...@th...> writes:

> I would have liked to get an aligned legend, like
>
> d =  9m
> d = 10m
>
> In order to achieve that, i was trying to print a white (=invisible) "1"
> whenever the number was smaller than 10 as spaceholder (I do not want to
> use a monospaced font). 

Does the \phantom trick work? I.e., r'd = \phantom{1}9m' or something
like that?

> Obviously, this doesn't work any more as soon as you reach 20...

Even if your font is not monospaced, it might have "tabular figures":

http://www.fonts.com/aboutfonts/articles/fyti/propvstabfigures.htm

I think at least Computer Modern Roman (the default font in TeX) does
have tabular figures.

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