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lovespeed

Reputation: 5055

Mark ticks in latex in matplotlib

In a plot in matplotlib I specially want to mark points on the x-axis as pi/2, pi, 3pi/2 and so on in latex. How can I do it?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 18239

Answers (2)

Dan Doe
Dan Doe

Reputation: 156

Another possibility is to update the pyplot rcParams, although this might be rather a hack than a legitimate way.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

cos = np.cos
pi  = np.pi

params = {'mathtext.default': 'regular' }  # Allows tex-style title & labels
plt.rcParams.update(params)

fig = plt.figure()
ax  = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
t   = np.linspace(0.0, 2*pi, 100)
s   = cos(t)
plt.plot(t, s)

ax.set_xticks([0, pi/2, pi, 3*pi/2, 2*pi])
ax.set_xticklabels(['$0$', r'$\frac{\pi}{2}$', r'$\pi$', r'$\frac{3\pi}{2}$', r'$2\pi$'])
plt.show()

Output

Upvotes: 1

unutbu
unutbu

Reputation: 879899

The plt.xticks command can be used to place LaTeX tick marks. See this doc page for more details.

import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

cos = np.cos
pi = np.pi

# This is not necessary if `text.usetex : True` is already set in `matplotlibrc`.    
mpl.rc('text', usetex = True)
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
t = np.linspace(0.0, 2*pi, 100)
s = cos(t)
plt.plot(t, s)

plt.xticks([0, pi/2, pi, 3*pi/2, 2*pi],
           ['$0$', r'$\frac{\pi}{2}$', r'$\pi$', r'$\frac{3\pi}{2}$', r'$2\pi$'])
plt.show()

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Upvotes: 28

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