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. > > -- > Jouni K. Seppänen > http://www.iki.fi/jks > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users