ggtext-like support?

[kendavidn]

Hello! Thank you for your amazing package. Just wondering whether there are plans on the roadmap to include support for markdown/HTML-like text formatting for text labels. Similar to what we have with {ggtext}. https://github.com/wilkelab/ggtext

[has2k1]

It is not possible at the moment, the matplotlib graphics stack (on which plotnine depends) makes it nearly impossible. This needs long term consideration and work, but the future is bright!

[kendavidn]

Hi again! I just found two python libraries, flexitext and highlight_text, that allow styling of text in matplotlib: https://github.com/tomicapretto/flexitext and https://github.com/znstrider/highlight_text.

Do you know if either of these would be compatible with plotnine?