# Makie text function no longer working

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-function-no-longer-working/106812
**Category:** Visualization
**Created:** [November 27, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-function-no-longer-working/106812 "2023-11-27T16:26:53Z")
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### Author: ![p\_f](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@p\_f](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/p_f)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-function-no-longer-working/106812/1 "2023-11-27T16:26:53Z")

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The `text` function from Makie is no longer working in an environment. I have updated GLMakie v0.9.1 and CairoMakie v0.11.1.

It does work in my global environment using GLMakie v0.8.6

In the local environment where it does not work:

`?text` gives

```julia
  text(string)

  Plots a text.

```

This example:

```julia
begin
    f = Figure()
    ax = Axis(f[1,1])
    text!(ax,0.5,0.5,text="hello")
end

```

gives error:

```julia
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching layout_text(::Float64, ::Float32, ::FreeTypeAbstraction.FTFont, ::Tuple{Symbol, Symbol}, ::Quaternionf0, ::StaticArraysCore.SMatrix{4, 4, Float32, 16}, ::MakieCore.Automatic, ::Float64, ::RGBA{Float32}, ::RGBA{Float32}, ::Int64)

```

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### Author: ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-function-no-longer-working/106812/2 "2023-11-27T16:40:23Z")

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Hm that looks like a regression, could you please file an issue?

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### Author: ![p\_f](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@p\_f](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/p_f)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-text-function-no-longer-working/106812/3 "2023-11-27T17:29:26Z")

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Apologies, it seems like there was something wrong with my local environment. After removing and adding the package and then restarting the Julia process everything seems to be working on the latest update. Not sure why it stopped working in the first place