On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Michael Hearne <mhea...@usgs.gov> wrote:
> Will fontdict continue to be a valid keyword argument for the text()
> function?  It seems to work now (in version 0.98.5.1), but the help on
> this page:
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.text
>
> is ambiguous, as it lists two keyword arguments at the top
> ("fontdict","withdash"), but then does NOT show either of those two
> under the list of valid kwargs later on.

This is a very old property that we've never removed, but it predates
support of kwargs for properties and there is no reason to use it.
Just put your properties in a dict if you need to::

  d = dict(fontsize=15, color='red')

and pass them to text (or xlabel, etc) like::

  text(1, 2, 'hi', **d)

JDH

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