Hi,

I am trying to use a text label with a new line in the middle and then save
the figure to .eps

text(0.5, 0.5, r'a \\ b')
savefig('test.eps')

This results in:

RuntimeError: LaTeX was not able to process your file:
Here is the full report generated by LaTeX:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
entering extended mode
(/tmp/tmpkRUaxb.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang,
noh
yphenation, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german,
ngerman, d
anish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, finnish, french,
greek,
 monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibycus,
indonesian,
 icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, portuguese,
romani
an, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish, turkish, ukenglish,
ukr
ainian, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/type1cm/type1cm.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/helvet.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/courier.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty

Package geometry Warning: Over-specification in `h'-direction.
    `width' (614.295pt) is ignored.


Package geometry Warning: Over-specification in `v'-direction.
    `height' (794.96999pt) is ignored.

) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psfrag/psfrag.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def)))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/config/color.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvipsnam.def))
No file tmpkRUaxb.aux.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1pnc.fd) <tmpkRUaxb.eps>

! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.31 \includegraphics*[angle=0]{tmpkRUaxb.eps}

[1] (./tmpkRUaxb.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on tmpkRUaxb.dvi (1 page, 2980 bytes).
Transcript written on tmpkRUaxb.log.

Is it a problem that it is using pdftex instead of pslatex?

Can anyone offer any assistance? Cheers.

Python 2.5.2
IPython 0.8.2
backend : GTKAgg

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