Pyplot save figure without rendering LaTex expression

Question

I want to save the following figure as svg without rendered LaTex code:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(np.arange(10))
plt.title(r'$\alpha$')
plt.savefig('figure.svg', format='svg')

Instead of $\alpha$ I see a rendered alpha-symbol in the title. How can I change this such that the LaTeX code is not rendered?

What do you mean by `LaTeX `code is not rendered ? You don't need `\alpha` ? — Jay Patel, Feb 16 '21 at 18:55
Is it related to this? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50345077/how-do-i-save-the-text-in-python-plots-editable-in-svg-files — fdireito, Feb 16 '21 at 22:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 17 '21 at 09:22

The solution is to escape the dollar signs with \$ and since my workflow is pyplot > inkscape > latex, I have to set the correct matplotlibrc parameters:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib
rc_params = {'text.usetex': 'False', 'svg.fonttype': 'none'}
matplotlib.rcParams.update(rc_params)
plt.plot(np.arange(10))
plt.title(r'\$\alpha\$')
plt.savefig('figure.svg', format='svg')

Pyplot save figure without rendering LaTex expression

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