10.15 LaTeX and Pyxplot

The text command can straightforwardly be used to render simple one-line latex strings, but sometimes the need arises to place more substantial blocks of text onto a plot. For this purpose, it can be useful to use the latex parbox or minipage environments¹. For example:

text r’parbox[t]{6cm}{setlength{parindent}{1cm} 
noindent There once was a lady from Hyde, newline 
Who ate a green apple and died, newline 
indent While her lover lamented, newline 
indent The apple fermented, newline 
and made cider inside her inside.}’

If unusual mathematical symbols are required, for example those in the amsmath package, such a package can be loaded using the set preamble command. For example:

set preamble usepackage{marvosym}
text r"{HugeDontwash NoIroning NoTumbler}$;$ Do not 
wash, iron or tumble-dry this plot."

Footnotes

1. Remember, any valid latex string can be passed to the text command and set label command.