thanks a lot! I did not know about raw strings, sorry, even Python has
its black corners, I guess.
funny \gamma works, though.
On a related note, usetex=True is fancy, but produce much bigger eps
files for me, so I stick with the standard mathtex rendering.
Thanks again
Nicolas
2009/9/4 Nicolas Chopin <nicolas.cho...@bristol.ac.uk>:
> Hi list,
> when I do:
> hist(randn(100)); xlabel('$\gamma$')
> things work as expected.
> However, if I try:
> hist(randn(100)); xlabel('$\beta$')
> then either I get an error, or I get the label "eta" under the plot.
> Other letters seem to trigger this: tau, alpha, rho, maybe others.
> This problems wether text.usetex is set to True or not (in matplolibrc file).
>
> Version: 0.98.5.2 (Ubuntu Jaunty, ipython 0.9.1 shell).
>
> Has anyone had the same problem, and is there any fix?
> Sorry if this has been reported before, I tried to find it, but
> nothing came out.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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