i am a Debian
user looking for a python plotting library that can support rendering
greek symbols and other various characters on plot axes labels, etc. i
would prefer something that adheres to tex formatting (as implemented
in latex, matlab, etc and has the form $\alpha$ to represent the greekcharacter alpha for example).
thus far, i've found that matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/) can do this, albeit the implementation is so poor that you cannot mix standard text with symbols on the same plot element.
pygrace (http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/software.html) seems to be able to inherently support symbols, but it doesn't follow the tex formatting. it has its own (seemingly arbitrary) syntax.
any thoughts on plotting libraries would be much appreciated.