The default mathtext font should have the "times" symbol. Are you
making any other changes that would affect the selection of mathtext
fonts? (Can you please attach a copy of your matplotlibrc file?) If
that looks ok, perhaps it isn't finding the math fonts correctly. There
are a multitude of reasons that could be happening. It is sometimes
helpful to set "verbose.level" to "debug-annoying" and then look at the
logs to see what might be going on. Also, you could try deleting the
fonts cache in ~/.matplotlib/fontManager.cache to force it to regenerate.
Cheers,
Mike
Matthias Michler wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> the little example below seems to fail, can anybody help me?
> I'm on Debian using the release 0.91.2.
>
> best regards and thanks in advance for any hints,
> Matthias
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> from matplotlib.ticker import ScalarFormatter
> from matplotlib.pyplot import *
>
> ax = axes()
> axis([0.0, 10**-7, 0, 10**-7])
>
> ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(ScalarFormatter(useMathText=True))
>
> show()
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> error message:
> /scratch/michler/SOFT/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/mathtext.py:722:
> MathTextWarning: Unrecognized symbol '\times'. Substituting with a dummy
> symbol.
> % sym.encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace'), MathTextWarning)
>
>
> the string '\times' is due to line
> sciNotStr = r'{\times}'+self.format_data(10**self.orderOfMagnitude)
> in function ScalarFormatter.get_offset
>
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