So it turns out that text.latex.preamble : '\usepackage{amsmath},\usepackage{amssymb}'
is not valid, but text.latex.preamble : \usepackage{amsmath},\usepackage{amssymb} is valid. Everything works fine now. Regards, -- Damon -------------------------- Damon McDougall Mathematics Institute University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL d.mcdoug...@warwick.ac.uk On 2 Aug 2010, at 17:42, Damon McDougall wrote: > Actually I'm wrong, the error says 'Missing \begin{document}'. Sorry for the > spam. > > Regards, > -- Damon > > -------------------------- > Damon McDougall > Mathematics Institute > University of Warwick > Coventry > CV4 7AL > d.mcdoug...@warwick.ac.uk > > > > On 2 Aug 2010, at 17:41, Damon McDougall wrote: > >> After some playing I have discovered that putting maplotlib.rc('text.latex', >> preamble='\usepackage{amsmath},\usepackage{amssymb}') fixes the issue of >> text rendering. However, when putting this value in the >> ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc file, I get the same error saying that \mathbb is >> undefined. Any ideas? >> >> Regards, >> -- Damon >> >> -------------------------- >> Damon McDougall >> Mathematics Institute >> University of Warwick >> Coventry >> CV4 7AL >> d.mcdoug...@warwick.ac.uk >> >> >> >> On 2 Aug 2010, at 16:48, Damon McDougall wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> So I'm generating a figure for a paper and I'd like to be able to use >>> something akin to ax.set_ylabel('$\mathbb{TEST}$') >>> >>> The weird thing is sometimes I get an error when running the figure >>> generation script (attached) and sometimes I don't. I also can't reproduce >>> when it does or doesn't give an error. In either case, the text doesn't >>> render as blackboard bold text, it's just normal Computer Modern Roman text >>> (see attached figure). Also see attached a python script that reproduces >>> the figure. >>> >>> <asd.pdf> >>> >>> <script.py> >>> >>> <error.txt> >>> >>> Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you. >>> >>> Regards, >>> -- Damon >>> >>> -------------------------- >>> Damon McDougall >>> Mathematics Institute >>> University of Warwick >>> Coventry >>> CV4 7AL >>> d.mcdoug...@warwick.ac.uk >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the >>> Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share >>> of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm_______________________________________________ >>> Matplotlib-users mailing list >>> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users