You don't need the $. In fact, an unescaped $ in a math expression is a syntax error.
Admittedly, the feedback about this could be better than just "couldn't render". I'll look at passing more information about the exception back to Sphinx. Note also, you'll want a slash in front of \alpha in order to get Greek, rather than "alpha". Mike Angus McMorland wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to use sphinx and your mathmpl extension to document some > of my own code, but I'm getting an error saying, in the simplest > instance: > > Warning: Could not render math expression $alpha$ > > Is mathmpl dependent on a particular version of sphinx? I'm using > 0.4.2-1 from debian at the moment. If that's not the problem, any idea > what else could be going wrong? > > Thanks, > > Angus. > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users