pgf backend in matplotlib – "input stack size" capacity exceeded with pdflatex and lualatex Question: I’m trying to use the pgf backend in matplotlib to create figure files for a manuscript, following the example in the matplotlib docs here. I don’t have xelatex so I’ve tried using pdflatex and lualatex. However, if I try to …
How do I check from within python whether LaTeX and TeX Live are installed on a computer? Question: I am writing a python program which generates TeX code that gets compiled into a PDF document. For this to work, I need to make sure that the user has some distribution of LaTeX installed on their …
matplotlib make axis ticks label for dates bold Question: I want to have bold labels on my axis, so I can use the plot for publication. I also need to have the label of the lines in the legend plotted in bold. So far I can set the axis labels and the legend to the …
How to obtain the same font(-style, -size etc.) in matplotlib output as in latex output? Question: I have one .tex-document in which one graph is made by the python module matplotlib. What I want is, that the graph blends in to the document as good as possible. So I want the characters used in the …
Python: Unable to Render Tex in Matplotlib Question: I recently upgraded my laptop to Snow Leopard, updated TeX to Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2011/MacPorts 2011_5), and installed Python 2.7.3. After all these installs, I ran macport selfupdate and macport upgrade outdated. However, now when I try to use TeX in matplotlib, I receive the following: …
