Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with saving eps files with large y amplitudes

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Saturday 20 May 2006 13:03, Ryan Krauss wrote:
> Updating to the latest svn seems to have solved my problems.

Thats good to hear. Your problem may have been caused by the conversion of the 
ps backend to use the new api, which may have been incomplete at the time of 
your last update. I believe the backend has stabilized.

> One weird note though, it seems like the version I was using (svn from
> a month or so ago) was more tolerant to latex errors.  The first time
> after I updated, I got errors on some of the scripts I wrote
> yesterday.  The current version gives a message about Latex not being
> able to process my file.  The old version made it through.  It turns
> out that I has omitted open and/or closing $'s in the Latex x and y
> labels.  Some how the old version handled '\\beta' and '$\\omega'
> just fine.  It is probably better to just print out the Latex errors
> and not try to guess how to fix it, but the older version was guessing
> correctly.

I put some effort into making usetex behave this way. What you are seeing is 
latex returning an exit status indicating an error. When that happens, mpl 
raises an error and passes along the latex error. I think this is much better 
than failing silently and hoping for the best, because often latex would not 
guess correctly (\frac{1}{2} vs $\frac{1}{2}$ is a good example). 

I apologize for any trouble it may cause you, especially considering you are 
finishing up your thesis. But this change was necessary in order to help me 
track down problems, which was becoming time consuming.

Darren