Re: [Matplotlib-users] using TeX backend on windows version of matplotlib?

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Michael Gilbert apparently wrote: 
> import pylab 
> pylab.rc('text', usetex=True) 
> pylab.xlabel(r'normal text ($\alpha$)') 
> pylab.plot(range(0,5)) 
> pylab.show() 
> will not work on the windows version of matplotlib, 

Not really an answer to your question, but:
it looks like a parse error on the parentheses.
Put them inside the math delimiters and it works.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac