Math text produces garbage output

Matplotlib's built-in mathematical expression parser produces garbage
output for math text:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8194/matplotlibmathtext.png

I'm using the distribution packages from Fedora 11. I guess there's an
issue with the fonts on my system but I can't figure out how to proceed
with pinpointing the issue.

Regards,

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Kamran Riaz Khan.

http://inspirated.com/

Can you add

"verbose.level : debug-annoying"

to your ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc file and send us the output produced?

FWIW, I just tested the matplotlib package on FC11 and it seems to work fine on my system, so it's possibly a configuration issue.

You might want to try removing for font cache file in:

~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache

Mike

Kamran Riaz Khan wrote:

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Matplotlib's built-in mathematical expression parser produces garbage
output for math text:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8194/matplotlibmathtext.png

I'm using the distribution packages from Fedora 11. I guess there's an
issue with the fonts on my system but I can't figure out how to proceed
with pinpointing the issue.

Regards,
  
--
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

Can you add

"verbose.level : debug-annoying"

to your ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc file and send us the output produced?

FWIW, I just tested the matplotlib package on FC11 and it seems to work
fine on my system, so it's possibly a configuration issue.

You might want to try removing for font cache file in:

~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache

Thanks for the quick reply. I deleted the fontList.cache file and added
verbose.level : debug-annoying to my matplobrc file. The next run of
pyplot example gave me:

The plot didn't appear but I guess that's the default behavior of
verbose level option. I removed the debug-annoying and reran the example
which in turn gave me the same image output as before.

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On 09/11/2009 07:28 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:

Kamran Riaz Khan wrote:

Matplotlib's built-in mathematical expression parser produces garbage
output for math text:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8194/matplotlibmathtext.png

I'm using the distribution packages from Fedora 11. I guess there's an
issue with the fonts on my system but I can't figure out how to proceed
with pinpointing the issue.

--
Kamran Riaz Khan.

The log doesn't show any actual plotting. Did you run the same example with debug-annoying turned on? Turning debugging on shouldn't change any behavior -- only output more debugging information to the console.

Cheers,
Mike

Kamran Riaz Khan wrote:

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On 09/11/2009 07:28 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
  

Can you add

"verbose.level : debug-annoying"

to your ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc file and send us the output produced?

FWIW, I just tested the matplotlib package on FC11 and it seems to work
fine on my system, so it's possibly a configuration issue.

You might want to try removing for font cache file in:

~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache
    
Thanks for the quick reply. I deleted the fontList.cache file and added
verbose.level : debug-annoying to my matplobrc file. The next run of
pyplot example gave me:

Kamran Riaz Khan - Pastebin.com

The plot didn't appear but I guess that's the default behavior of
verbose level option. I removed the debug-annoying and reran the example
which in turn gave me the same image output as before.

Kamran Riaz Khan wrote:
    

Matplotlib's built-in mathematical expression parser produces garbage
output for math text:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8194/matplotlibmathtext.png

I'm using the distribution packages from Fedora 11. I guess there's an
issue with the fonts on my system but I can't figure out how to proceed
with pinpointing the issue.

--
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

There seems to be something really, really wrong here. As running the
_same_ example with debug-annoying turned on just terminates the
execution at:

backend Agg version v2.2
backend_agg.new_figure_manager

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On 09/11/2009 10:51 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:

The log doesn't show any actual plotting. Did you run the same example
with debug-annoying turned on? Turning debugging on shouldn't change
any behavior -- only output more debugging information to the console.

--
Regards,
Kamran Riaz Khan.

That *is* strange. I'm at a bit of a loss. Is it segfaulting? Can you get a traceback from gdb?

Since I'm having no trouble with the FC11 packages, that suggests it's something related to a difference in configuration. Are you doing anything unusual with fontconfig? Are you 64-bit or 32-bit (I'm on 32-bit, for what it's worth)? Are you running the freetype or freetype-freeworld package?

What does:

fc-list "Computer Modern"

display?

Sorry for all the questions, but I'm grasping for something here :wink:

Cheers,
Mike

Kamran Riaz Khan wrote:

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On 09/11/2009 10:51 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
  

The log doesn't show any actual plotting. Did you run the same example
with debug-annoying turned on? Turning debugging on shouldn't change
any behavior -- only output more debugging information to the console.
    
There seems to be something really, really wrong here. As running the
_same_ example with debug-annoying turned on just terminates the
execution at:

backend Agg version v2.2
backend_agg.new_figure_manager

--
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

That *is* strange. I'm at a bit of a loss. Is it segfaulting? Can you
get a traceback from gdb?

Since I'm having no trouble with the FC11 packages, that suggests it's
something related to a difference in configuration. Are you doing
anything unusual with fontconfig? Are you 64-bit or 32-bit (I'm on
32-bit, for what it's worth)? Are you running the freetype or
freetype-freeworld package?

What does:

fc-list "Computer Modern"

display?

Nothing :smiley: , I think this might be the culprit. However, I have
cm-unicode's ttf fonts installed:

What fonts does matplotlib exactly need here?

Sorry for all the questions, but I'm grasping for something here :wink:

I appreciate you putting in your time and effort for this seemingly
bizarre issue :slight_smile: .

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On 09/14/2009 06:33 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:

Cheers,
Mike

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Regards,
Kamran Riaz Khan.