Re: [Matplotlib-users] Mathtext spacing

[Matt N. <new...@ca...>]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Dominique Orban wrote:

> I just downloaded the latest matplotlib (0.63.4) for Windows XP. I got 
> rid of my font cache to make sure they would be re-generated. I have two 
> questions/issues:
> 
> 1) The font cache was not re-created, for some reason.
> 
> 2) The spacing in math text does not seem to be rendered. I may be doing 
> something wrong. I have tried this in both the TkAgg and GTKAgg 
> backends. If i modify the example script mathtext_demo.py so the line
> 
> title(r'$\Delta_i^j \hspace{0.4} \rm{versus} \hspace{0.4} 
> \Delta_{i+1}^j$', fontsize=20)
> 
> becomes
> 
> title(r'$\Delta_i^j \hspace{0.4} \rm{versus some} \hspace{0.4} 
> \Delta_{i+1}^j$', fontsize=20)
> 
> the space between 'versus' and 'some' is not rendered on my machine.
 

That's the normal behavior of TeX math-mode.  I believe you want:

   \rm{versus \ some}

--Matt