Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex just produces gibberish

[Neal B. <ndb...@gm...>]

Darren Dale wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Neal Becker <ndb...@gm...> wrote:
>> I have an old fedora 11 system.  When I try to use latex math (e.g.,
>> $\mu=2$), it gives no error, but seems to produce gibberish (just ordinary
>> ascii chars) in my pdf output.
>>
>> Any ideas how to debug?
> 
> Try using raw strings. If that doesn't work, try submitting a short example.
> 

submitting an example won't help.  The problem is with this installation.  My 
question is, how can I try to debug it?