## 4.7.3 Creating pastable text

Pyxplot’s default convention of displaying numbers in a format such as

    (2+3i) meters

is well-suited for creating text which is readable by human users, but is less well-suited for creating text which can be copied and pasted into another calculation in another Pyxplot terminal, or for creating text which could be used in a latex text label on a plot. For this reason, the `set numerics display` command allows the user to choose between three different ways in which numbers can be displayed:

`pyxplot> set numerics display natural`
`pyxplot> print phy.c`
`299792.46 km/s`
`pyxplot> set numerics display typeable`
`pyxplot> print phy.c`
`299792.46*unit(km/s)`
`pyxplot> set numerics display latex`
`pyxplot> print phy.c`
`$299792.46,mathrm{km}/mathrm{s}$`

The first case is the default way in which Pyxplot displays numbers. The second case produces text which forms a valid algebraic expression which could be pasted into another Pyxplot calculation. The final case produces a string of latex text which could be used as a label on a plot.