Question

I want to make a subscript for the axis label of my plot plotted using matplotlib. I have the following script snapshot:

import matplotlib.pylab as plt
plt.ylabel(r'$A^{2}$')

I have 2 questions:

1. In the plot, the subscript “2” seems occupying a whole word length in stead of half, which make the plot a little bit weird. How to make the subscript smaller (both in size and the length span)?

2. How to display “angstroms” (the length unit of 10^-10m) instead of A?

Thanks!

Answer 1

1. What version of matplotlib are you using? In my version the superscript seems fine (to me).
   Im using python 2.6.5 and matplotlib 1.1.0

2. Use \AA for angstram –> plt.ylabel(“$\AA$”).
   The circle is a bit small, though.