TeX and Text

There are two commands to create text, TexMobject and TextMobject. In both parameters the text is written in TeX format, but while in TextMobject you write in normal mode, in TexMobject you are writing within the align* environment.

The LaTeX packages that Manim uses are in:

manimlib/tex_template.tex

They are the following by default:

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{dsfont}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage{relsize}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage{calligra}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{physics}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{microtype}

TexMobject

class manimlib.mobject.svg.tex_mobject.TexMobject(*tex_strings, **kwargs)

Write formulas in TeX mode

Parameters

*tex_strings (string) -- Formula in TeX code

CONFIG parameters

"template_tex_file_body": TEMPLATE_TEX_FILE_BODY,
"stroke_width": 0,
"fill_opacity": 1.0,
"background_stroke_width": 1,
"background_stroke_color": BLACK,
"arg_separator": " ",
"alignment": "",

TexMobject.get_tex_string()

Return TeX code

TexMobject.set_color_by_tex(tex, color, **kwargs)

Set the color by specifying the TeX symbol

Note

In case of TexMobject it does not work if the radical symbol is used. In case you use indexes and superscripts, write the superscript first.

Example: x^i_j

TextMobject

class manimlib.mobject.svg.tex_mobject.TextMobject(*tex_strings, **kwargs)

Write texts in TeX mode

Parameters

*tex_strings (string) -- Text in TeX code

CONFIG parameters

"template_tex_file_body": TEMPLATE_TEXT_FILE_BODY,
"stroke_width": 0,
"fill_opacity": 1.0,
"background_stroke_width": 1,
"background_stroke_color": BLACK,
"arg_separator": " ",
"alignment": "\centering"

TextMobject.get_tex_string()

Return TeX code

TextMobject.set_color_by_tex(tex, color, **kwargs)

Set the color by specifying the TeX symbol

Note

In case of TexMobject it does not work if the radical symbol is used. In case you use indexes and superscripts, write the superscript first.

Example: x^i_j