On 7/26/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 July 2007 9:05:41 pm Fernando Perez wrote:
> > This sounds to me like a good case for Guido's mantra of NOT putting > > keywords in functions and instead just making two separate functions. > > Why not just > > > > text(x,y,"This year I lost a lot of $$$") > > mtext(x,y,r"This year I lost \$$\infty$") > > > > ? Explicit is better than implicit and all that... > > what about x/ylabels, titles, ticks, etc? Oh, I'd forgotten about all of those :) Yes, this is pervasive across MPL, I answered in haste. Duplicating the entire text-related API may be a tad much, perhaps ;) > I think education is the best way to go. Its not that difficult to grasp, its > an established standard... and we are designing tools primarily for > scientists and engineers after all. Most of the other options will probably > have a larger effect on existing code. Well, I was trying to go with John's concern for non-latex users. I'm quite happy with a system that treats *every string* via latex. But I know for many reasons that's not realistic here (and PyX does precisely that, if I really want it). Cheers, f ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
