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

[Richard L. <r.w...@gm...>]

On 2 August 2010 15:19, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote:
> 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 (\$)")
>

No luck.  Nor with:

matplotlib.rc('text.latex', unicode=True)
pylab.ylabel(u"Profit (\$)")