Summary

When I try use LaTeX with matplotlib (see script below), I get an error containing! LaTeX Error: File type1cm.sty not found. Onthe site fortype1cm, it says "Note that the LATEX distribution now contains a packagefix-cm, which performs the task oftype1cm, as well as doing the same job for T1- and TS1-encoded ec fonts". On my system/LaTeX installation,fix-cm is installed by default, whereastype1cm is not, so assuming this is generally true for other users, it would make more sense for matplotlib to usefix-cm instead oftype1cm, as this should achieve the same results, and avoid forcing the user to install extra LaTeX packages.

importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltimportmatplotlibmatplotlib.rc('font',**{'family':'serif','serif': ['Computer Modern']})matplotlib.rc('text',usetex=True)plt.plot([1,2],c="b")plt.savefig("output.png")

Python 3.10.12
matplotlib Version: 3.8.2
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Proposed fix

Use fix-cm rather than type1cm for LaTeX