Re: [Matplotlib-users] question about example of override the default reporting of coords

On 05/31/2012 10:12 AM, Tony Yu wrote:
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> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Mark Bakker <ma...@gm... 
> <mailto:ma...@gm...>> wrote:
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>     OK. Got it. That is not what I was looking for.
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>     But, why the leading $ sign? Just as an example? The $ sign shows
>     up in the cursor coordinate now. Is that what was supposed to
>     happen (it is confusing with the $ sign also being used for
>     mathtext formatting, as you know).
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>     Thanks,
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>     Mark
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> I'm guessing that the example was displaying millions of dollars along 
> the y-axis. The dollar sign can be confusing, but it's nice to know 
> that the mathtext parser doesn't get confused ;)
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The mathtext parser doesn't kick in unless there is a *pair* of dollar 
signs.

Mike