[Matplotlib-users] Font in figures needs to load a specific latex package \usepackage{tipa}

[Jeffrey S. <jef...@gm...>]

I want to use IPA vowel labels in my figures and to do that I need to load
the package in latex \usepackage{tipa}. Is this possible as searching
online besides using the new backend "pgf" I haven't seen how to manually
select latex packages to load when using tex. Is this possible?

Also a side note is everytime when running ipython qtconsole and if I
select text.usetex = True in my .matplotlibrc or by running
rcParams.update() the kernal always seems to force a restart. It seems it
gets snagged in the external call to latex. It still works fine but a
message pops up constantly telling you the kernal needs to be restarted.