Text introduction

matplotlib has excellent text support, including mathematical

expressions, truetype support for raster and vector outputs, newline

separated text with arbitrary rotations, and unicode support. Because

we embed the fonts directly in the output documents, e.g., for postscript

matplotlib has extensive text support, including support for

mathematical expressions, truetype support for raster and

vector outputs, newline separated text with arbitrary

rotations, and unicode support. Because it embeds

fonts directly in output documents, e.g., for postscript

or PDF, what you see on the screen is what you get in the hardcopy.

`freetype2<http://www.freetype.org/>`_ support

produces very nice, antialiased fonts, that look good even at small

raster sizes. matplotlib includes its own

:mod:`matplotlib.font_manager`, thanks to Paul Barrett, which

implements a cross platform, W3C compliant font finding algorithm.

You have total control over every text property (font size, font

weight, text location and color, etc) with sensible defaults set in

the rc file. And significantly for those interested in mathematical

:mod:`matplotlib.font_manager` (thanks to Paul Barrett), which

implements a cross platform, `W3C <http://www.w3.org/>`

compliant font finding algorithm.

The user has a great deal of control over text properties (font size, font

weight, text location and color, etc.) with sensible defaults set in

the `rc file <http://matplotlib.org/users/customizing.html>`.

And significantly, for those interested in mathematical

or scientific figures, matplotlib implements a large number of TeX

math symbols and commands,to support:ref:`mathematical expressions

math symbols and commands,supporting:ref:`mathematical expressions

<mathtext-tutorial>` anywhere in your figure.

*:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.text` - add text at an arbitrary location to the ``Axes``;

:meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.text` in the API.

*:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel` - addan axis label to the x-axis;

*:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel` - adda label to the x-axis;

:meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_xlabel` in the API.

*:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.ylabel` - addan axis label to the y-axis;

*:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.ylabel` - adda label to the y-axis;

:meth:`matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_ylabel` in the API.

*:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.title` - add a title to the ``Axes``;