Tex-style factorial ! in legend

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1

Hello,

When I use something along the lines of

   `legend( (r'$0.5^x/x!$', r'$1^x/x!$') )`

for some reason omegas are drawn instead of the ! sign. I can't find

an alternative here
nor elsewhere. Any ideas?

Many thanks,

Andreas
2

Looks fine to me. Do you have rcParams['text.usetex']=True?

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:10 AM, andreasl <andreasl@...2880...> wrote:

Hello,

When I use something along the lines of

   legend( (r'0\.5^x/x\!', r'1^x/x\!') )

for some reason omegas are drawn instead of the ! sign. I can't find an
alternative here nor elsewhere. Any ideas?

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University of Warwick
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3

Thanks Damon. No, I was using matplotlib’s own rather than . If I do set to ,
trying to plot anything results in errors, the output including:
This on the matplotlib webpage (I am using
Ubuntu-derived Mint). I’m not keen to install as
part of Mint’s space-chomping 485MB package. May figure out how to install it individually; if anyone
has experience with this, please shout. Cheers.

···

On 25/09/12 11:44, Damon McDougall
wrote:

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:10 AM, andreasl wrote:


Hello,
When I use something along the lines of
legend( (r'$0.5^x/x!$', r'$1^x/x!$') )
for some reason omegas are drawn instead of the ! sign. I can't find an
alternative here nor elsewhere. Any ideas?

Looks fine to me. Do you have rcParams['text.usetex']=True?

mathtex direct
LaTeX supportusetex``True
`

  ! LaTeX Error: File `type1cm.sty' not found.

`

issue
is mentionedtype1cm``texlive-latex-extra
<andreasl@…2880…>

4

This is working for me, even with text.usetex set to "False". What version of matplotlib are you using? Do you have anything set in your matplotlibrc file?

Mike

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On 09/25/2012 06:10 AM, andreasl wrote:

Hello,

When I use something along the lines of

legend( (r'0\.5^x/x\!', r'1^x/x\!') )

for some reason omegas are drawn instead of the ! sign. I can't find an alternative here <http://matplotlib.org/users/mathtext.html&gt; nor elsewhere. Any ideas?

Many thanks,

Andreas

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