[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib-users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 24

[Ruth Sims]

Dear Eric,

Many thanks for your help. The code runs fine from the command line and 
the graph is output as expected with the axis titles formatted correctly.

Thanks

Ruth

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> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:35:46 -1000
> From: Eric Firing <efiring at hawaii.edu>
> To: matplotlib-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Render plot labels with LaTeX
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> On 2016/04/23 3:09 AM, Ruth Sims wrote:
>> Running Matplotlib v: 1.5.1 in Anaconda on OS X El Capitan, V 10.11.4
>> trying to render plot labels with LaTeX so I can use figures in my
>> thesis. However, whenever I uncomment the command 'usetex = true', I
>> receive an error similar to the below:
>>
>> RuntimeError: LaTeX was not able to process the following string:
>> 'lp'
>> Here is the full report generated by LaTeX:
>>
>> I have MacTeX-2015 and LaTeX, dvipng and ghostscript are each on my
>> PATH. According to the instructions on
>> <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5076>https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5076
>> I was able to reproduce the code in a clean environment - so I assume
>> there is nothing wrong with any of the installations.
> Ruth, if you put the code from your first attachment in a file, and run
> that file as a script from the command line instead of within ipython,
> do you still get the error?  It looks like even in your "clean
> environment", some ipython startup code is being run (importing sympy,
> etc.).  There are also other places where pieces of old environment
> might be getting pulled in, such as from a matplotlibrc file.
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> Eric
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>> I've tried most of the suggestions I found on various mailing lists but
>> still received the same error.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ruth Sims
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 14:44:07 -0400
> From: gml at garymlewis.com
> To: Sebastian Berg <sebastian at sipsolutions.net>
> Cc: matplotlib-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] errors when mp4 files played in
> 	browser
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> Thanks, Sebastian. That sounds hopeful. What extra arguments did you
> add? I'd like to give it a try to see if it fixes the problem I'm
> having. ... Gary
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> On 2016-04-22 02:33, Sebastian Berg wrote:
>> I had similar problems recently due to ffmpeg changing some defaults
>> for the encoding. After realizing this was the problem, searching for
>> it and adding the correct extra arguments for the movie creation to be
>> passed to ffmpeg quickly solved the issue.
>>
>> - Sebastian
>>
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>> On Do, 2016-04-21 at 22:45 -0600, Ryan May wrote:
>>>> My question then comes to this: does anyone on the matplotlib forum
>>>> have experience with viewing mp4 files in a browser? If so, do you
>>>> have any suggestions for a work-around? I've literally spent months
>>>> getting a few matplotlib animations to the point where they may be
>>>> useful to others. It never occurred to me that I'd have problems at
>>>> the very last link in the chain.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much for your thoughts. Sorry this is so long.
>>> I've put some effort into making sure the animations will render in
>>> the Jupyter Notebook, so I'm curious: on the platforms where you're
>>> seeing problems, what do they do with the movie at the bottom of this
>>> notebook
>>>
>>> http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/dopplershift/356f2e14832e9b676207
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>
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