Re: [PyX-user] percent sign

[Andre W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi,

On 25.06.05, vapor direku wrote:
> I am trying, without success, to include the % sign in the string within 
> the plotxy g:
> 
> number = 4.42156625523
> x0 = 0.5
> y0 = 0.5
> g.text(x0, y0, "%1.2f %% number" %number, [text.halign.center])
> 
> Anything wrong with my code?

The problem is, that "%" indicates a comment in TeX, but you can
escape the percent sign in TeX by a backslash. Hence you have to
pass the string '4.42 \% number' to TeX. A minimal example along your
code is:

    from pyx import *
    c = canvas.canvas()
    number = 4.42156625523
    c.text(0, 0, "%1.2f \\%% number" % number)
    c.writeEPSfile("percent")

HTH,


André

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