{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ioam/holoviews/issues/170","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ioam/holoviews/issues/170/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ioam/holoviews/issues/170/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ioam/holoviews/issues/170/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ioam/holoviews/issues/170","id":89958614,"number":170,"title":"rcParams are not overwritting everywhere","user":{"login":"basnijholt","id":6897215,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6897215?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/basnijholt","html_url":"https://github.com/basnijholt","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/basnijholt/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/basnijholt/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/basnijholt/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/basnijholt/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/basnijholt/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/basnijholt/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/basnijholt/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/basnijholt/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/basnijholt/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-06-21T20:47:42Z","updated_at":"2015-06-21T20:47:42Z","closed_at":null,"body":"With holoviews the following thing doesn't work:\r\n\r\n```\r\nfrom holoviews.plotting.mpl import MPLPlot\r\nMPLPlot.fig_rcparams['text.usetex'] = True\r\nMPLPlot.fig_rcparams['text.latex.preamble'] = [r'\\usepackage{siunitx}']\r\nhv.Image(np.random.rand(10,10), label=r'$\\num{12345,67890}$')\r\n```\r\n\r\n\r\nBut it does work when I set it in matplotlib directly.\r\n```\r\nimport matplotlib as mpl\r\nmpl.rcParams['text.usetex'] = True\r\nmpl.rcParams['text.latex.preamble'] = [r'\\usepackage{siunitx}']\r\nhv.Image(np.random.rand(10,10), label=r'$\\num{12345,67890}$')\r\n```\r\n"}}