This seems to be related to the change to pickle cache the entire 
FontManager class.  If you delete ~/.matplotlibrc/fontManager.cache, the 
font.size setting takes effect.

I made a small change in r3861 that should fix this problem.

Cheers,
Mike

Darren Dale wrote:
> It appears that relative font sizing is broken in svn. It used to be possible 
> to do this:
> 
> from matplotlib import rcParams
> rcParams['font.size']=6
> rcParams['xtick.labelsize']='small'
> import pylab
> pylab.plot([1,2])
> pylab.text(0.1, 1.75, 'look how small I am compared to the ticks')
> pylab.show()
> 
> and any of the various text sizes like ticklabels, axis labels, titles, etc, 
> would be sized relative to font.size. It looks like relative sizes are no 
> longer scaled to font.size, but some fixed value. Does anyone know what has 
> changed?
> 
> Thanks,
> Darren
> 
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