Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with importing LaTeX package amsmath and $\text{}$

[Juergen H. <py...@el...>]

Am 30.03.2013 16:29, schrieb Pawel Chojnacki:
> Please pardon me, but what object is math.usetex attribute of? I can't find it in the documentation.
>
> http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html Mentions only text.usetex.
>
>

You need to set
	mpl.rcParams['text.usetex'] = True

For text you need unicode, for latex raw encoding.
To have text and latex in one line, use
	xlabel(u'Häallo '+r'$\varphi$'+ 'r')

Works for me, at least.