As Jouni suggested, I guess the best chance here is to use phantom
command. Here is a little example.

rc('text', usetex=True)

p1, = plot([1,2,3])
legend([p1, p1, p1, p1],
       [r"d = $\phantom{0}1$ m", "d = $10$ m", "d = $23$ m", "d = $91$ m"])

-JJ


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Jouni K. Seppänen <j...@iki.fi> wrote:
> Sebastian Busch <webmas...@thamnos.de> writes:
>
>> I would have liked to get an aligned legend, like
>>
>> d =  9m
>> d = 10m
>>
>> In order to achieve that, i was trying to print a white (=invisible) "1"
>> whenever the number was smaller than 10 as spaceholder (I do not want to
>> use a monospaced font).
>
> Does the \phantom trick work? I.e., r'd = \phantom{1}9m' or something
> like that?
>
>> Obviously, this doesn't work any more as soon as you reach 20...
>
> Even if your font is not monospaced, it might have "tabular figures":
>
> http://www.fonts.com/aboutfonts/articles/fyti/propvstabfigures.htm
>
> I think at least Computer Modern Roman (the default font in TeX) does
> have tabular figures.
>
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