# ... problem using tex on axes label...

Oh, thats great news, finally some success on windows! TeX

> should work across the *Agg backends, but John did that
> work. Maybe he could comment.

What version of dvipng are you using, Alan? I haven't tested with
anything < 1.5?

JDH

I have the version 1.6 distributed with MiKTeX.

I have found a few things.
(This is TKAgg only; the backend_ps works fine!)

Focusing on the example at
http://www.scipy.org/wikis/topical_software/UsingTex

- On the xlabel and ylabel, if I use \bf I get problems
(same for \textbf) but with \it I can see the axis labels.
It looks like a spacing problem?
- If I delete the \displaystyle command in the title, it
almost displays, but all the superscripts are missing in
the fraction. If I then delete \frac I see everything.
Again, it looks like a spacing problem?

So actually I am getting substantial functionality at this
point, as long as I avoid all bold, all displaystyle math,
and \frac.

Alan

PS Lesser questions.

- Can I do the following (i.e., is the syntax right)?
rc('text.tex', engine='latex')
rc('font.latex', package='type1cm')
Will this over-ride the settings in matplotlibrc? (For
the discussion above, I set these there, as in the example
at http://www.scipy.org/wikis/topical_software/UsingTex,
but I want to understand the rest of the description in
this example.)
- I notice
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.texmanager.html
says "The tex and dvipng/dvips information is cached in
~/.tex.cache for reuse between sessions. Does the tilde
here mean the .matplotlib directory *below* the home
directory? Because that's where I find tex.cache (i.e.,
not right below HOME). (Note: that's tex.cache, no
leading dot in conflict with the docs, but I assume that's
ok because backend_ps works and I am getting some TKAgg
functionality as well?)
- Finally, should the tex.cache directory remain full of old
cached images? Forever?

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On Sat, 06 Aug 2005, John Hunter apparently wrote:

What version of dvipng are you using, Alan? I haven't
tested with anything < 1.5