On Wednesday 07 June 2006 16:45, John Hunter wrote: > >>>>> "William" == William Hartt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > William> Does anyone know the syntax for fraction used in > William> mathtext? The LaTex version is \frac{num}{denom} but > William> this gives an error. > > mathtext doesn't currently support frac (but hopefully it will by the > end of the summer as we have a google summer-of-code student working > on mathtext). As Ryan noted, if you have access to TeX/LaTeX on your > system, you can use that to render your equations > > Requirements: > > tex > > *Agg backends: dvipng > > PS backend: latex w/ psfrag, dvips, and Ghostscript 8.51 > (older versions do not work properly)
I think we can relax the ghostscript requirement to version 7.07 or later. I worked through some issues a few months back, and my test script (which produces three different sized plots for every combination of text.usetex and ps.usedistiller settings) didnt indicate any problems using ESP Ghostscript 7.07. Darren _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users