Re: Constructing a Label
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- Subject: [mg93398] Re: Constructing a Label
- From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 04:05:35 -0500 (EST)
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Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> writes:
>> I want to automatically construct labels of the form
>> "A = <value of A>" for a number of plots.
>>
>> However, I cannot quite figure out how to generate the above
>> expression. My first idea was to construct it as a string
>>
>> label = "A = " <> ToString[A]
>>
>> but this looks horribly if A is more complicated than just a single
>> literal. So I assume that I have to "concatenate" the Mathematica
> Hi,
>
> since
>
> Plot[Sin[# x], {x, 0, Pi},
> PlotLabel ->
> "\!\(\*SubscriptBox[\"A\", \"1\"]\)[\!\(\*SuperscriptBox[\"x\", \
> \"2\"]\),\[Sum] \!\(\*SubscriptBox[\"x\", \"i\"]\)]=" <>
> ToString[#]] & /@ {1, 2, 3}
>
> work perfect, can you explain what
> "looks horribly if A is more complicated"
> may mean ?
Look at the output of e.g. "A = " <> ToString[1/2]. It renders as:
A = 1
-----
2
The suggested solutions with Row[] and StringForm[] work perfectly
though, thanks a lot to the posters.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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