[Matplotlib-users] Problem using TeX

[Florian L. <mai...@xg...>]

Hello,

I try to use LaTeX in my plot. I follow the instructions from http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/UsingTex

florian@horus:~> cat .matplotlib/matplotlibrc
text.usetex        : true

My plotting code looks like:

Ma = arange(1.0, 5.0, 0.01)
Ts = [T(i) for i in Ma]  # BTW: Is there a way to spare this line?
plot(Ma, Ts, label=r'/frac{T2}{T1}')

Running the script gives:

python Stossverlauf.py --verbose-helpful

$HOME=/home/florian
CONFIGDIR=/home/florian/.matplotlib
matplotlib data path /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data
loaded rc file /home/florian/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
matplotlib version 0.99.1.1
verbose.level helpful
interactive is False
units is False
platform is linux2
Using fontManager instance from /home/florian/.matplotlib/fontList.cache
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pytz/tzinfo.py:5: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
  from sets import Set
backend Agg version v2.2


and that's all, no plot window appears, the script is finished. If I remove the matplotlibrc everything works fine (of course no LaTeX).
I think all the necessary programs are in place:

florian@horus:~> which latex
/usr/local/bin/latex
florian@horus:~> which dvipng
/usr/local/bin/dvipng
florian@horus:~> which gs
/usr/bin/gs

Any idea what could be wrong?

Thanks,

Florian