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Revision: 7302
          http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=7302&view=rev
Author:   evilguru
Date:     2009-07-28 20:56:07 +0000 (Tue, 28 Jul 2009)

Log Message:
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Update the INSTALL file so that it includes information about mathtex.

Modified Paths:
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    branches/mathtex/INSTALL

Modified: branches/mathtex/INSTALL
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--- branches/mathtex/INSTALL	2009-07-28 19:55:30 UTC (rev 7301)
+++ branches/mathtex/INSTALL	2009-07-28 20:56:07 UTC (rev 7302)
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
   with agg support and use one of the GUI agg backends: GTKAgg, WXAgg,
   TkAgg or FLTKAgg.
 
+  In addition matplotlib can also optionally make use of mathtex, a
+  pure python TeX rendering library.  In previous versions of
+  matplotlib this was built in, however it will split off in mid-2009.
+  To ease installation mathtex is included in matplotlib in lib/mathtex.
+
 COMPILING
 
   You will need to have recent versions of freetype, libpng and zlib
@@ -45,13 +50,16 @@
   /some/path/include/somheader.h, put /some/path in the basedir list
   for your platform.
 
-
   Once you have everything above set to your liking, just do the usual
   thing
 
       python setup.py build
       python setup.py install
 
+  If mathtex is not already available on the system it can be installed
+  by following the instructions in lib/mathtex/INSTALL.  The
+  dependencies are a subset of those required by matplotlib.
+
 WINDOWS
 
   If you don't already have python installed, you may want to consider


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