Hello everyone,
I frequently use subscripts and superscripts in text on my plots, but
I've noticed that the line and character spacing (kerning ?) is not
always as I would expect. For most things, this is not a problem.
However, I would occasionally like various text objects to line up with
one another, and at these times, this spacing difference can become a issue.
I guess I have a couple questions at this point... First, is this
expected? Second, is there any (simple) way I can control the line and
character spacing? I see there is a 'linespacing' keyword argument;
however, this seems to be a multiplier relative to the total text height
for each line not an absolute, fixed height of every line. For character
spacing, is there a special symbol I could insert to add or removing
spacing between characters?
I'm using Matploblib 1.0.0 that ships with Python(x,y) for Windows.
Below is a test script that highlights these differences (at least on my
system).
Any help or suggestions are most appreciated. (I don't know much TeX, so
I appologize if these differences are obvious for those in the know.)
Ryan
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.rc('font', size=25.0)
plt.text(0.25, 0.25,
'X1Y2\nX1Y2\nX$_1$Y$_2$\nX$_{1}$Y$_{2}$\n$X_1Y_2$\n$X_{1}Y_{2}$')
plt.text(0.75, 0.25,
'X1Y2\nX1Y2\nX$^1$Y$^2$\nX$^{1}$Y$^{2}$\n$X^1Y^2$\n$X^{1}Y^{2}$')
plt.text(0.5, 0.25, 'X$_{1}$Y$_{2}$\nX$^{1}$Y$^{2}$\n$X_1Y_2$\n$X^1Y^2$')
plt.show()
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