Re: [Matplotlib-users] French characters

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

I think you'd have to add \acute to the overunder dictionary in
mathtext.py and then use as '\acute{e}'.  That assumes that a "`"
is close enough for the accent mark.  If so, it's possible that
other accent marks as well, though I don't see how to get an
umlaut or cedilla.

As a general question, can mathtext directly access characters in
the TeX font tables?  Would that simply involve adding more
entries to latex_to_bakoma in _mathtext_data.py???  If so, that
might make it easier to reproduce many of the TeX accents
(including umlaut), as the double-dot and acute marks have actual
places in the font tables.  It migh also make \AA (\Angstrom) less
of a corner case.

--Matt

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Mayer Gerhard wrote:

> Hi all,
> I cannot figure out howto use french characters using the Agg backend. 
> E.g. title(r'$Temp \acute e rature$') does not work.
> Has anyone an idea howto do it?
> Gerhard
> 
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