Latex fonts on axis and labels in Makie

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I would like to use LaTeX fonts for every text of a Makie figure.
It’s easy to apply them to labels as LaTeXStrings can be used. For other texts, in particular axis tick labels, it a bit less trivial.
I was once told to use this:

using GLMakie 
using MathTeXEngine
Makie.update_theme!( fonts = (regular = texfont(), bold = texfont(:bold), italic = texfont(:italic)))

This indeeds successfully replaces the fonts by the LaTeX ones and allows to homogenize fonts over a figure that uses LaTeXStrings.
Nevertheless, the installation of MathTeXEngine appears problematic on some machines.
Is there any other workaround in order to activate LaTeX fonts everywhere on a figure?
Thanks!

edit: crossed out the statement about installation of MathTextEngine since it’s not the cause of the problem (see below)

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It might be the same under the hood, but I always use the LaTeX theme: Predefined themes | Makie

Does it? It looks like an ordinary Julia package to me, so I wouldn’t expect any problems (and never faced any myself).

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thanks for the suggestion !
With this approach the difference is that the whole figure apparently needs to be wrapped up into a function. This does the job nevertheless.

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yes, we’re current developing a package and one contributor gets issues of that kind:

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MathTexEngine is innocent here, I think. Is it possible that the active package, RheologyCalculator, restricts the version of LinearAlgebra to the range 1.11.0-1, while running a Julia version with LinearAlgebra version 1.10.3? That’s how I read the error at least.

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Ah OK… But why does the installation of MathTeXEngine has anything to do with LinearAlgebra ? That’s confusing…

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My guess is that Pkg resolves all package versions when adding any package. RheologyCalculator depends on LinearAlgebra, so a version for LinearAlgebra is being resolved. I am not sure why the error pops up now instead of when LinearAlgebra was added as a dependency. Maybe the package was originally developed with Julia 1.11, and later on that user started using Julia 1.10?

However, you can test this hypothesis by running ] resolve (instead of ] add MathTexEngine). My expectation is it’ll fail too.

You can also run ] status --compat. It should display the restriction on LinearAlgebra versions. I bet you can than go ahead and just loosen it or remove it from Project.toml. Likely, you have something like

[compat]
LinearAlgebra = "1.11"

You can try removing that line, or maybe changing 1.11 → 1 to allow any version 1.x.x.

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Thank you so much for your suggestions. I’ll pass that on to my colleagues, this will likely help fixing the issue. Meanwhile I edited the original post since the mention of an installation problem of MathTexEngine was incorrect.