"John Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm on the fence as to how to handle this case. The majority of our > users will think of $ as the US currency symbol, and will have never > heard of TeX.
Those users are probably also not so likely to want to use mathtext, so there could be an rc setting for toggling the meaning of $ between the currency symbol and the math delimiter. Adding rc settings is probably not good for the API, though. Is it an option to use something rarer than $ to delimit formulas? Most of the printable ASCII characters are probably being used by someone, and the unprintable characters are likely to be difficult to handle. ISO Latin 1 contains e.g. the little-used currency sign ¤. But perhaps it is too difficult to type on US keyboards? (There is a Unicode Technical Note at http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/ which suggests using U+23A8 LEFT CURLY BRACKET MIDDLE PIECE and U+23AC RIGHT CURLY BRACKET MIDDLE PIECE as math delimiters, but it also has its own Unicode-based math syntax.) > Option 1 is to educate them, and require them to \$ quote that symbol. I guess Option 1' is to move away from $ to something else, and educate mathtext users. If there are fewer of them (us), this would seem to be easier globally. > I'm not too keen on the text(x, y, Math('string')) proposal, which is > a little outside the normal matplotlib approach. You're right that it would be quite different than the rest of the API. Perhaps your Option 2 (a text property) would cause the least surprise in the long run, although it would break current mathtext-using code. -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
