Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tex-style factorial ! in legend

[andreasl <and...@la...>]

Thanks Mike. Interesting that it works for you with mathtext only.

I am in some confusion about the matplotlib version I'm using. Synaptic 
(package manager) says that for matplotlib I have 
0.99.1.2-3ubuntu1installed. Asking for help(matplotlib) in python gives

> FILE
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib-1.0.1-py2.6-linux-i686.egg/matplotlib/__init__.py

I did not change anything manually in matplotlibrc, of which I seem to 
have three versions:

> /etc/matplotlibrc
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/matplotlib-1.0.1-py2.6-linux-i686.egg/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc

The first one has backend: TkAgg whereas the other two have backend: 
GTKAgg. Everything else is commented out. I usually work from within the 
Spyder IDE, where the backend is set (via Preferences) to Qt4Agg. I get 
the faulty behaviour (omega instead of !) both from within Spyder and 
from within a console ipython session (where presumably either TkAgg or 
GTKAgg is used). Setting the backend to either TkAgg or GTKAgg in Spyder 
results in no plot at all.


On 25/09/12 19:05, mat...@li... wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:01:14 -0400
> From: Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tex-style factorial ! in legend
> To: <mat...@li...>
> Message-ID: <506...@st...>
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>
> This is working for me, even with text.usetex set to "False".  What
> version of matplotlib are you using?  Do you have anything set in your
> matplotlibrc file?
>
> Mike
>
> On 09/25/2012 06:10 AM, andreasl wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> When I use something along the lines of
>>
>> legend( (r'$0.5^x/x!$', r'$1^x/x!$') )
>>
>> for some reason omegas are drawn instead of the ! sign. I can't find
>> an alternative here <http://matplotlib.org/users/mathtext.html> nor
>> elsewhere. Any ideas?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Andreas