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@anntzer anntzer commented Oct 21, 2021

tex does not support paths that contain tildes, and tmpdir may be such a
path. Fortunately, we can arrange to refer to paths relatively instead.

No test, as that would involve setting up another MPLCONFIGDIR just for
that purpose, which is rather costly as we'd need to regen the font
cache for it. But one can try e.g.

MPLCONFIGDIR=/tmp/has~tilde python -c 'from pylab import *; figtext(.5, .5, "a", usetex=True); show()'

Closes #21375 (comment).

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tex does not support paths that contain tildes, and tmpdir may be such a
path.  Fortunately, we can arrange to refer to paths relatively instead.

No test, as that would involve setting up another MPLCONFIGDIR just for
that purpose, which is rather costly as we'd need to regen the font
cache for it.  But one can try e.g.
```
MPLCONFIGDIR=/tmp/has~tilde python -c 'from pylab import *; figtext(.5, .5, "a", usetex=True); show()'
```
@tacaswell tacaswell added this to the v3.5.0 milestone Oct 21, 2021
@tacaswell tacaswell merged commit 9c77f6b into matplotlib:main Oct 21, 2021
meeseeksmachine pushed a commit to meeseeksmachine/matplotlib that referenced this pull request Oct 21, 2021
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…414-on-v3.5.x

Backport PR #21414 on branch v3.5.x (Support pathological tmpdirs in TexManager.)
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[Bug]: 3.5.0rc1: MPLCONFIGDIR no longer supported to load custom configurations?
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