What can be done with the current Matplotlib is to use the offset boxes. Here is a modified version of a code snippet from
http://abitofpythonabitofastronomy.blogspot.com/2009/05/mpl-multicolor-text.html Regards, -JJ from matplotlib.offsetbox import HPacker, TextArea, AnnotationBbox f = figure(1) ax = f.add_subplot(111) txt1 = TextArea("A$^3$", textprops=dict(color="r", size=150)) txt2 = TextArea("gb", textprops=dict(color="k", size=150)) txt = HPacker(children=[txt1, txt2], align="baseline", pad=0, sep=0) bbox = AnnotationBbox(txt, xy=(0.5, 0.5), xycoords='data', frameon=False, box_alignment=(0.5, 0.5), # alignment center, center ) ax.add_artist(bbox) show() On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Yann Tambouret <yannp...@bu.edu> wrote: > Along the lines of Mike's suggestion, I thought this could be done using > Latex. > > > I posted an answer on SO with an example of doing this, but it seems only to > work with postscript backend. Other backends override the color with the mpl > text color setting. > > Is there a way to prevent this override? For example don't try to use 'PS' > backend, and look at hte figure interactively. It defaults to black. > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/9185143/717357 > > -Yann > > > > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Ivanov <pivanov...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Benjamin Root, on 2012-02-07 13:46, wrote: >> > Also, how deep should this rabbit hole go? I could imagine one could >> > want >> > this for title() and figtitle(). Maybe it would be best to implement >> > this >> > at the Text() constructor level? >> >> For this reason, I would discourage even implementing such >> functionality in the core of matplotlib. This functionality doesn't strike >> me >> as something that ought to be available everywhere by default - if someone >> needs it, they can implement it as follows: >> >> ----- >> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >> from matplotlib import transforms >> >> def rainbow_text(x,y,ls,lc,**kw): >> """ >> Take a list of strings ``ls`` and colors ``lc`` and place them next to >> each >> other, with text ls[i] being shown in color lc[i]. >> >> This example shows how to do both vertical and horizontal text, and >> will >> pass all keyword arguments to plt.text, so you can set the font size, >> family, etc. >> """ >> t = plt.gca().transData >> fig = plt.gcf() >> plt.show() >> >> #horizontal version >> for s,c in zip(ls,lc): >> text = plt.text(x,y," "+s+" ",color=c, transform=t, **kw) >> text.draw(fig.canvas.get_renderer()) >> ex = text.get_window_extent() >> t = transforms.offset_copy(text._transform, x=ex.width, >> units='dots') >> >> #vertical version >> for s,c in zip(ls,lc): >> text = plt.text(x,y," "+s+" ",color=c, transform=t, >> rotation=90,va='bottom',ha='center',**kw) >> text.draw(fig.canvas.get_renderer()) >> ex = text.get_window_extent() >> t = transforms.offset_copy(text._transform, y=ex.height, >> units='dots') >> >> >> plt.figure() >> rainbow_text(0.5,0.5,"all unicorns poop rainbows ! ! !".split(), >> ['red', 'orange', 'brown', 'green', 'blue', 'purple', 'black'], >> size=40) >> >> best, >> -- >> Paul Ivanov >> 314 address only used for lists, off-list direct email at: >> http://pirsquared.org | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! >> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >> Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
