Re: [Matplotlib-users] Dollar sign in TeX plot label

[Darren D. <dsd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Richard Lincoln <r.w...@gm...> wrote:
> I am having trouble creating a plot using TeX which has a $ sign in
> one of the axis labels.  If I run:
>
> import matplotlib
>
> matplotlib.rc('font', **{'family': 'serif', 'serif': ['Computer Modern Roman']})
> matplotlib.rc('text', usetex=True)
>
> import pylab
>
> pylab.figure()
> pylab.plot([0.0, 1.0])
> pylab.ylabel("Profit (\$)")
> pylab.savefig('/tmp/fig.pdf')
>
>
> I get the error:

Try:

pylab.ylabel(r"Profit (\$)")