LaTeX
Makie can render LaTeX strings from the LaTeXStrings.jl package using MathTeXEngine.jl .
This engine supports a subset of LaTeX's most used commands, which are rendered quickly enough for responsive use in GLMakie.
Using L-strings
You can pass
LaTeXString
objects to almost any object with text labels. They are constructed using the
L
string macro prefix.
using CairoMakie
f = Figure(fontsize = 18)
Axis(f[1, 1],
title = L"\frac{x + y}{\sin(k^2)}",
xlabel = L"\sum_a^b{xy}",
ylabel = L"\sqrt{\frac{a}{b}}"
)
f
You can also mix math-mode and text-mode:
using CairoMakie
f = Figure(fontsize = 18)
Axis(f[1,1], title=L"Some text and some math: $\frac{2\alpha+1}{y}$")
f
Caveats
You can currently not change a text object which has been instantiated with a normal
String
input to use a
LaTeXString
. If you do this, the
LaTeXString
is converted to a
String
implicitly, losing its special properties. Instead it appears with
$
signs wrapped around.
Notice how the second axis loses its LaTeX title. You have to pass the L-string at axis construction.
using CairoMakie
f = Figure(fontsize = 18)
Axis(f[1, 1], title = L"\frac{x + y}{\sin(k^2)}")
ax2 = Axis(f[1, 2])
ax2.title = L"\frac{x + y}{\sin(k^2)}"
f
For implicitly created axes, you can do this via the
axis
keyword argument.
scatter(randn(50, 2), axis = (; title = L"\frac{x + y}{\sin(k^2)}"))
These docs were autogenerated using Makie: v0.15.3, GLMakie: v0.4.7, CairoMakie: v0.6.6, WGLMakie: v0.4.7