Re: [Matplotlib-users] 1.3 + xkcd + latex

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

Michael Droettboom wrote:

> The built-in mathtext support does. (I can put "xkcd()" at the top of
> the mathtext_demo.py example and all is well).
> 
> It does not work when |text.usetex| is True (when using external TeX).
> But in that case, it should have thrown an exception:
> 
> |Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "mathtext_demo.py", line 9, in <module>
>      xkcd()
>    File
>    "/home/mdboom/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-
linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py",
>    line 293, in xkcd
>      "xkcd mode is not compatible with text.usetex = True")
> RuntimeError: xkcd mode is not compatible with text.usetex = True|
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 10/18/2013 07:24 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> 
>> It appears that latex doesn't work with xkcd?
>>
>> I put for example:
>>          self.ax.set_xlabel ('$E_s/N_0
>>
>>
>> )
>>
>> Which go rendered with the '
>>
>>
>>   signs and not as latex
>>
>> And my vertical axis was labeled as:
>>
>> $\mathdefault{10^{3}}$ ...
>>
>>

Strange.  I don't have anything about usetex in the script, or in my 
.matplotlibrc - all it has is:

backend : Qt4Agg
mathtext.fontset: stix