Hello all,

This message is geared toward those of you in the scientific community. I'm looking for a python plotting library that can support rendering greek symbols and other various characters on plot axes labels, etc. I would prefer something that adheres to tex formatting (as implemented in latex, matlab, etc and has the form $\alpha$ to represent the greek character alpha for example).

Thus far, i've found that matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/) can do this, albeit the implementation is so poor that you cannot mix standard text with symbols on the same plot element.

pygrace (http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/software.html) seems to be able to inherently support symbols, but it doesn't follow the tex formatting.

any thoughts on plotting libraries would be much appreciated. thanks.

mike

Based on your thread title, I was going to ask if you have looked at matplotlib, but it doesn't sound like that will work for you. Have you had any luck seeing if there are python bindings that hook into a library that you prefer? A quick google search turned up a library called "QaTex" (http://qatex.sourceforge.net/), I'm not sure if that will help you or not.

Just a suggestion, you may want to try posting this question to the comp.lang.python newsgroup. The google interface is here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python

thanks for the suggestion. i hadn't thought to look into a python newsgroup. i'll post it right away.