Latex support

[fanyuan-lab]

It seems that Gadfly still cannot support latex form of axis. I think that is quite important for researchers who want to plot figures of papers.

[Mattriks]

See #1094 and GiovineItalia/Compose.jl#369 (Compose is the graphics package that Gadfly uses).

[fanyuan-lab]

Thanks a lot. By the way, why to_latex("\lambda_i") works, but to_latex("\lambda_A") does not work. I mean sub of Capital character doesn't support.

[Mattriks]

Yes, not all characters have been added to julia unicode superscript/subscript.
An alternative is to use pango markup. You can mix julia unicode and pango e.g. "V<sup>×10⁻⁵</sup>".

[fanyuan-lab]

Thanks for your patience. That is nice.

[fanyuan-lab]

Sorry to disturb again. to_latex("\mu_A") does not work as well.

[Mattriks]

Gadfly relies on julia itself or other packages to provide symbol support. In a julia REPL (or Jupyter) try typing "\mu" (without the quote marks) and press tab key immediately. This will give you the symbol μ. See Tab completion in the Julia docs.

You can copy and paste the symbol into any julia code e.g. "μ<sub>A</sub>" (you don't need to use to_latex). If you really want to use the UnicodeFun.jl package, and something doesn't work, then you should open an issue there: https://github.com/SimonDanisch/UnicodeFun.jl/issues.

[Mattriks]

Closing this now because the info is in #1094