Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex just produces gibberish

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Droettboom
Sounds like you don't have the fonts installed and/or they are not getting found. You can try removing the font cache, which will force a research. (~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache) If that doesn't work, in your matplotlibrc add the line: verbose.level: debug-annoying This will print out a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex just produces gibberish

2011-05-18 Thread Neal Becker
Michael Droettboom wrote: > 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: >> Darr

Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex just produces gibberish

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Droettboom
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex just produces gibberish

2011-05-18 Thread Neal Becker
Darren Dale wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Neal Becker 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 u

Re: [Matplotlib-users] latex just produces gibberish

2011-05-17 Thread Darren Dale
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Neal Becker 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 do