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

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

Michael Droettboom wrote:

> 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?
> 

No.  Also tried removing .matplotlibrc (in ~/.matplotlib).