There is currently an issue with using tex plotting style in bilby. It is especially frustrating since the issue arises even if bilby is merely imported but not used. I was not able to figure out the root of the issue, but it seems to causes issues like the following:
RuntimeError: latex was not able to process the following string:
b'$\\\\times\\\\mathdefault{10^{-3}}\\\\mathdefault{}$
This can be reproduced by running the script below. Note that bilby is imported but unused.
import bilby
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
matplotlib.rc('text', usetex=True)
plt.plot([1e-3, 2e-3, 3e-3], [1e-3, 2e-3, 3e-3])
plt.savefig('testing.png')
plt.show()
I resolved the issue by defining the \mathdefault
command in the outermost __init__.py
, using the same syntax that is used in the bilby.core.utils.latex_plot_format
wrapper.
I am aware that there are a few other people that had similar issues, so it would be good to test if this consistently resolves the issue. @nikhil.sarin @matthew-pitkin