[Matplotlib-users] Re:

[Dominique O. <Dom...@po...>]

> To: Matt Newville <new...@ca...>
> Cc: Mayer Gerhard <ger...@co...>,
> 	<mat...@li...>
> Subject: Re: AW: [Matplotlib-users] French characters
> From: John Hunter <jdh...@ac...>
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:49:57 -0600
> 
> 
>>>>>>"Matt" == Matt Newville <new...@ca...> writes:
> 
> 
>     Matt> Sorry for the confusion, that's not what I meant.  I think
>     Matt> that the acute sign would have to be added to the list of
>     Matt> symbols that mathtext can handle.  That would probably mean
>     Matt> both special code in mathtext.py and an entry in
>     Matt> _mathtext_data.py. I'm not sure what the right entry in the
>     Matt> font table would be, as I don't understand the entries in
>     Matt> the latex_to_bakoma dictionary in _mathtext_data.py at all.
> 
> I just added support for accents in general to mathtext.  The
> following accents are provided: \hat, \breve, \grave, \bar, \acute,
> \tilde, \vec, \dot, \ddot.  All of them have the same syntax, eg to
> make an overbar you do \bar{o} or to make an o umlaut you do \ddot{o}.

Is there any reason why we can't use the usual TeX symbols for the 
accents, e.g.: \'{e} for acute accent, \`{e} for grave, \"{a} for 
umlaut, etc.?

There has been an attempt to introduce LaTeX commands into Powerpoint at 
some point (some package from Stanford I believe, called TeXPoint). It 
produces nice equations but very few use it simply because the commands 
aren't standard TeX.

Dominique