title: Matplotlib using text instead of marker BUT can't be the best way to do it?
body: <p>I would just like to make sure I am on the right track here as this seems to be pretty cumbersome for Matplotlib. I want to use a label as a marker on a plot and have it working to some degree. It uses mathtext BUT I wonder if there isn't another way to do it?  Here is the code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  x = []
  y = []
  
  symbol = "AAPL"
  
  x = range(5)
  y = [5,10,12,15,11]
  
  plt.plot(x,y,lw=2.5,color='r',linestyle='solid',marker=r"$ {} $".format(symbol),markersize=25)
  
  plt.show()
  </code></pre>