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Text introduction
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=================
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matplotlib has excellent text support, including mathematical
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expressions, truetype support for raster and vector outputs, newline
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separated text with arbitrary rotations, and unicode support. Because
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we embed the fonts directly in the output documents, e.g., for postscript
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matplotlib has extensive text support, including support for
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mathematical expressions, truetype support for raster and
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vector outputs, newline separated text with arbitrary
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rotations, and unicode support. Because it embeds
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fonts directly in output documents, e.g., for postscript
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or PDF, what you see on the screen is what you get in the hardcopy.
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`freetype2 <http://www.freetype.org/>`_ support
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produces very nice, antialiased fonts, that look good even at small
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raster sizes. matplotlib includes its own
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:mod:`matplotlib.font_manager`, thanks to Paul Barrett, which
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implements a cross platform, W3C compliant font finding algorithm.
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You have total control over every text property (font size, font
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weight, text location and color, etc) with sensible defaults set in
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the rc file. And significantly for those interested in mathematical
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:mod:`matplotlib.font_manager` (thanks to Paul Barrett), which
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implements a cross platform, `W3C <http://www.w3.org/>`
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compliant font finding algorithm.
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The user has a great deal of control over text properties (font size, font
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weight, text location and color, etc.) with sensible defaults set in
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the `rc file <http://matplotlib.org/users/customizing.html>`.
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And significantly, for those interested in mathematical
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or scientific figures, matplotlib implements a large number of TeX
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math symbols and commands, to support :ref:`mathematical expressions
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math symbols and commands, supporting :ref:`mathematical expressions
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<mathtext-tutorial>` anywhere in your figure.
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* :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.text` - add text at an arbitrary location to the ``Axes``;
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:meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.text` in the API.
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* :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel` - add an axis label to the x-axis;
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* :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel` - add a label to the x-axis;
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:meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xlabel` in the API.
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* :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.ylabel` - add an axis label to the y-axis;
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* :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.ylabel` - add a label to the y-axis;
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:meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_ylabel` in the API.
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* :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.title` - add a title to the ``Axes``;

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