Re: [Matplotlib-users] Latex, Labels and PDF

[John T W. <joh...@li...>]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:

> Peter Würtz <pw...@st...>
> writes:

>> The documentation says that \rm{} should be used, but

>> "$\rm{some label text} (\mu V)$" becomes "somelabeltext\muV"

> This is similar to what you would get in TeX, so strictly taken it is
> not a bug. However, in TeX you could write "some label text ($\mu V$)"
> instead, which unfortunately does not work with matplotlib. A workaround
> is to type r"$\rm{some\ label\ text}\ (\mu V)$", (as Christian Meesters
> already wrote).

Shouldn't
r"some label text ($\mu V$)"
work?

BTW, my EPS issues went away when I started starting my scripts with

from pylab import *
text.usetex = True
from matplotlib import rc
rc('text', usetex=True)

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