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matplotlib has extensive text support, including support for
mathematical expressions, truetype support for raster and
vector outputs, newline separated text with arbitrary
rotations, and Unicode support. These tutorials cover
the basics of working with text in Matplotlib.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails">


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Introduction to plotting and working with text in Matplotlib.">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/text/images/thumb/sphx_glr_text_intro_thumb.png
    :alt: Text in Matplotlib Plots

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_text_text_intro.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Text in Matplotlib Plots</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Controlling properties of text and its layout with Matplotlib.">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/text/images/thumb/sphx_glr_text_props_thumb.png
    :alt: Text properties and layout

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_text_text_props.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Text properties and layout</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Annotating text with Matplotlib.">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/text/images/thumb/sphx_glr_annotations_thumb.png
    :alt: Annotations

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_text_annotations.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Annotations</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="You can use a subset of TeX markup in any Matplotlib text string by placing it inside a pair of...">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/text/images/thumb/sphx_glr_mathtext_thumb.png
    :alt: Writing mathematical expressions

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_text_mathtext.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Writing mathematical expressions</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Using the pgf backend, Matplotlib can export figures as pgf drawing commands that can be proces...">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/text/images/thumb/sphx_glr_pgf_thumb.png
    :alt: Text rendering with XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX via the ``pgf`` backend

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_text_pgf.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Text rendering with XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX via the ``pgf`` backend</div>
    </div>


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Matplotlib can use LaTeX to render text.  This is activated by setting text.usetex : True in yo...">

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  .. image:: /tutorials/text/images/thumb/sphx_glr_usetex_thumb.png
    :alt: Text rendering with LaTeX

  :ref:`sphx_glr_tutorials_text_usetex.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Text rendering with LaTeX</div>
    </div>


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    </div>


.. toctree::
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   /tutorials/text/text_intro
   /tutorials/text/text_props
   /tutorials/text/annotations
   /tutorials/text/mathtext
   /tutorials/text/pgf
   /tutorials/text/usetex