Ah, that makes much more sense for the labels... what about the
commands for assigning weights and fonts to the default numbers along
an axis? I know I saw a post a while back where someone was able to
make the numbers boldface ... is that not rendered via TeX? And if so,
why do none of the options I changed seem to have any effect on those
numbers?
Thanks!
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First to correct some confusion (and a good candidate to add to the new docs
> that everyone is working so hard on...): mathtext and usetex are completely
> independent systems, and you can only use either one of the other.
> Therefore, if usetex is True, none of the mathtext settings will have any
> effect.
>
> Erik Tollerud wrote:
>>
>> I am having trouble figuring out how to control the weight of labels
>> and text with the usetex option set to True. I would like to force
>> all mathmode labels and text to be at least bold. I can imagine doing
>> this either by substituting a font (i.e. changing the mathtext.fontset
>> to 'custom' and all of the different matext.?? to some boldface font),
>> or some the font.weight rc parameter, but neither of these has any
>> effect - whatever I do, the mathmode and other TeX formatted text
>> stays the same weight. How can I make it just turn up the weights to
>> bold without changing anything else?
>>
>
> This is not something that is directly supported. When usetex is True, all
> of the rendering happens with (La)TeX, so you're limited by what (La)TeX can
> do. You would probably need to find some LaTeX package that does this, and
> then \include it in the LaTeX preamble using the "text.latex.preamble"
> setting. My quick Googling didn't reveal anything that can do that,
> however.
>
> You can get bold in a math expression by enclosing content in \mathbf{}, but
> that is by definition "upright" bold. The reason, I believe, is that (core)
> LaTeX simply doesn't include the fonts for Greek characters and other
> symbols in bold.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael Droettboom
> Science Software Branch
> Operations and Engineering Division
> Space Telescope Science Institute
> Operated by AURA for NASA
>
>
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