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

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

On 09/25/2012 03:27 PM, andreasl wrote:
> 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

It looks like you have both a package manager installed and a locally 
installed copy then, and the one that is being imported is the local 
copy (1.0.1).

I believe this bug existed then, but was fixed in 1.1.  You may want to 
upgrade to 1.1.1 or the new 1.2.0rc2 if you want to live on the edge.

Mike

> 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...>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> 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
>
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