[matplotlib-devel] Different behaviour of mathtext and LaTeX rendering

[Manuel M. <mm...@as...>]

   I just noted that mathtext and LaTeX rendering behave differently 
when using a single "$" character in a text string. This happened to me 
when looking at the dollar_ticks example from the docs because I use 
LaTeX rendering by default. The problem is here:

formatter = ticker.FormatStrFormatter('$%1.2f')

MathText interprets this as a single "$" character, whereas LaTeX 
interprets this as starting character of a math expression (and I get an 
error), i.e. I have to write "\$1.2f" instead, which then, however, is 
interpreted by MathText as "\$" ... :-(

Shouldn't these two behave equally here?

mm