.. only:: html .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_dfrac_demo.py: ========================================= The difference between \\dfrac and \\frac ========================================= In this example, the differences between the \\dfrac and \\frac TeX macros are illustrated; in particular, the difference between display style and text style fractions when using Mathtex. .. versionadded:: 2.1 .. note:: To use \\dfrac with the LaTeX engine (text.usetex : True), you need to import the amsmath package with the text.latex.preamble rc, which is an unsupported feature; therefore, it is probably a better idea to just use the \\displaystyle option before the \\frac macro to get this behavior with the LaTeX engine. .. image:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_dfrac_demo_001.png :alt: dfrac demo :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: default import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5.25, 0.75)) fig.text(0.5, 0.3, r'\dfrac: $\dfrac{a}{b}$', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center') fig.text(0.5, 0.7, r'\frac: $\frac{a}{b}$', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center') plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_dfrac_demo.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: dfrac_demo.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: dfrac_demo.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_