SF.net SVN: matplotlib:[8050] trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/mathtext.rst

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Revision: 8050
          http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=8050&view=rev
Author:   mdboom
Date:     2009-12-22 17:03:29 +0000 (Tue, 22 Dec 2009)

Log Message:
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Add docs for new features in mathtext

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/mathtext.rst

Modified: trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/mathtext.rst
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--- trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/mathtext.rst	2009-12-21 19:49:17 UTC (rev 8049)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/mathtext.rst	2009-12-22 17:03:29 UTC (rev 8050)
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@
 customization variable ``mathtext.fontset`` (see
 :ref:`customizing-matplotlib`)
 
-.. note:: 
-   On `"narrow" <http://wordaligned.org/articles/narrow-python>`_ builds 
+.. note::
+   On `"narrow" <http://wordaligned.org/articles/narrow-python>`_ builds
    of Python, if you use the STIX fonts you should also set
    ``ps.fonttype`` and ``pdf.fonttype`` to 3 (the default), not 42.
-   Otherwise `some characters will not be visible 
+   Otherwise `some characters will not be visible
    <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general/19963/focus=19978>`_.
 
 Here is a simple example::
@@ -85,18 +85,20 @@
 
     \sum_{i=0}^\infty x_i
 
-Fractions
----------
+Fractions, binomials and stacked numbers
+----------------------------------------
 
-Fractions can be created with the ``\frac{}{}`` command::
+Fractions, binomials and stacked numbers can be created with the
+``\frac{}{}``, ``\binom{}{}`` and ``\stackrel{}{}`` commands,
+respectively::
 
-    r'$\frac{3}{4}$'
+    r'$\frac{3}{4} \binom{3}{4} \stackrel{3}{4}$'
 
 produces
 
 .. math::
 
-    \frac{3}{4}
+    \frac{3}{4} \binom{3}{4} \stackrel{3}{4}
 
 Fractions can be arbitrarily nested::
 


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