Are you setting text.usetex to True, or using matplotlib's built-in mathtext rendering?
Can you attach an image? I've seen enough of these failure cases that I can often guess by looking at it ;) Mike On 05/18/2011 09:21 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > Darren Dale wrote: > >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Neal Becker<ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I have an old fedora 11 system. When I try to use latex math (e.g., >>> $\mu=2$), it gives no error, but seems to produce gibberish (just ordinary >>> ascii chars) in my pdf output. >>> >>> Any ideas how to debug? >> Try using raw strings. If that doesn't work, try submitting a short example. >> > submitting an example won't help. The problem is with this installation. My > question is, how can I try to debug it? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! > Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its > next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran > developers boost performance applications - including clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users