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

[Eduardo G. S. <eg...@as...>]

You could use

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

or use another font.

Eduardo


On 2 Aug 2010, at 15:50, Benjamin Root wrote:

> Hmmm, if I comment out the .savefig() and use the show(), I get no errors.  But I get the same key error if I try to save it as a pdf.  However, if I save it as a png, I get no problems.
> 
> Maybe it is a problem with the pdf backend?
> 
> Ben Root
> 
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Richard Lincoln <r.w...@gm...> wrote:
> 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 (\$)")
>