Hi, annotate and usetex='True' can trigger a traceback if the text is invalid. A space or an underscore generate this behavior, I haven't tried others.
Ubuntu 8.10, mpl svn (rev. 7032). Once again feel free to ignore this, I just feel compelled to report all mpl bugs :) JLS Example: #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- from matplotlib import rc rc('text', usetex=True) rc('font', family='serif') import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np x = np.arange(-10.0,10.0,0.1) plt.plot(x,np.sin(x)) ax = plt.gca() ax.annotate(' ',xy=(-5.8,0.5),xytext=(-8.0,0.5), arrowprops=dict(facecolor='black',width=1.5, shrink=0.05)) plt.show() #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py", line 352, in expose_event self._render_figure(self._pixmap, w, h) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtkagg.py", line 75, in _render_figure FigureCanvasAgg.draw(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line 283, in draw self.figure.draw(self.renderer) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 773, in draw for a in self.axes: a.draw(renderer) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 1672, in draw a.draw(renderer) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 1615, in draw self.update_positions(renderer) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 1542, in update_positions l,b,w,h = self.get_window_extent(renderer).bounds File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 662, in get_window_extent bbox, info = self._get_layout(self._renderer) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 253, in _get_layout clean_line, self._fontproperties, ismath=ismath) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_agg.py", line 152, in get_text_width_height_descent renderer=self) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/texmanager.py", line 594, in get_text_width_height_descent dvi = dviread.Dvi(dvifile, 72*dpi_fraction) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/dviread.py", line 45, in __init__ self.file = open(filename, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/jls/.matplotlib/tex.cache/557ff391b6beb8d5df7a86de0547f607.dvi' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel