Re: [Matplotlib-users] TeX in xlabel ?

[Chris B. <Chr...@no...>]

Gary wrote:

> Matplotlib doesn't support \text, and it requires that the first and 
> last characters of a TeX string be $.  I guess it only processes 
> mathmode.    Well, it can't do *everything*. 

Oh well, I've always thought that if you want to support Math in a 
graphics package, you would actually use TeX, rather than emulating it. 
Maybe like PyX:

http://pyx.sourceforge.net/

The problem, of course, is that requiring a TeX system is a BIG 
dependency! It would be nice if one could re-package the Tex interpreter 
to be embedded. I have no idea how big a job that would be. You'd also 
have all the font issues, of course, but while that would all be a lot 
of work, I'm not sure it would be more work than trying to re-write TeX!

-Chris







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