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

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

On 10/18/2013 08:20 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> 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
>
>

Puzzling.  Do you have a matplotlibrc in the current working directory?

Mike

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