When I searched this forum, I found a lot of posts about the problem, but I still don’t know answers to my simple question(s). I’m quite satisfied with Julia’s standard 1D graphing functions in the Plots package. Then, what’s the best way to have subscripts, superscripts, and special symbols that m…

Hi! I wish all simple questions had simple answers… :slight_smile: My understanding is that (apart from PGFPlots.jl) all the LaTeX-like formatting you see in Julia plotting packages is pseudo-LaTeX or faux-LaTeX rather than genuine \LaTeX (!), and the fonts are restricted and/or hard-coded. So the …

I’m working on a PR for Makie that will add rich text with subscripts and superscripts in any font, as I think there’s a large set of use cases that aren’t quite full LaTeX and where people don’t want Computer Modern as the font, but which can be covered quite ok with just these basic building block…

Thank you both for your responses! So, I’ve got an impression that these things are still under development. Actually I’m not familiar with how graphics packages are organized and I’m not sure if I’m asking the right questions, but . . . Do you switch engines without changing plotting function …

these things are still under development. I think the Julia ecosystem, like all ecosystems, is always changing… how graphics packages are organized I think the Julia home page is a pretty good introduction: Plots.jl is a visualization interface and toolset. It provides a common API across v…

[image] ryofurue: p = plot(a; xlabel=L"volume [$10^{-3}\mathrm{m}^3$]") You can use Unicode for simple things like numeric sub/superscripts and Greek letters. This will match the surrounding font if your font has sufficient Unicode coverage (otherwise it may switch to a fallback font or give…

Font for Plots: subscripts and special symbols in labels

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lmiq October 25, 2022, 11:58am 6

Maybe this helps: Nice fonts with Plots, GR and LaTeXStrings

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Font for Plots: subscripts and special symbols in labels

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