If you have dvipng and set text.usetex : True in your matplotlibrc file, th= en xlabel(r'$\rho^2$ along axis') works (and looks darn pretty thanks to Darre= n). Ryan On 12/7/05, Mark Bakker <ma...@gm...> wrote: > Does anybody know a way to mix mathtext and regular text, for example in = the > axis label? > > Something like > > xlabel(r'$\rho^2$ along axis') > > doesn't work. I know this is mentioned in the manual. > Just wondering if somebody knows a workaround rather than using the full > Latex option. > > Thanks, Mark >