Re: python plotting with greek symbols within labels recommendations?
Hi,
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> hello all,
>
> 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).
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another option is PyX: http://pyx.sourceforge.net/
It produces extremely nice, compact postscript.
To generate labels etc. it runs (la)tex in the back
and embeds the (scalable) results in the graphics.
So you can use any LaTeX font, additional style files
(eg amsmath) to produce whatever symbol you can produce
with normal LaTeX.
One only has to write a few more lines of python code
compared to matplotlib, or gnuplot etc.
Highly recommended for publication quality plots!
Best,
Arnd
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