The choice for math fonts is somewhat limited, because so few fonts have
the necessary symbols and spacing information, even if they are
reasonably complete Unicode-wise.
You basically have three supported choices, and one experimental choice,
set with the mathtext.fontset parameter:
cm: The TeX Computer Modern fonts
stix: A new math font designed to blend with Times
stixsans: A sans-serif math font (similar, but not identical to
either Helvetica or Arial)
custom: Provide a Unicode font -- this generally doesn't work very well.
As for your second question, it should have worked to set all
non-mathtext text to Helvetica. Do you have any other customizations in
your matplotlibrc file?
Cheers,
Mike
Berit Hinnemann wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have just upgraded to 0.93.1 (actually it turned out I did not even
> have to remove the 0.90 egg, python imports from 0.91 all by itself. I
> do not completely understand why, but that was a nice surprise...) and
> now the mixing of normal text and mathtext works nicely.
>
> Is it possible to use a different font than the latex-like font for
> the mathtext? It seems to be, as I found some lines relating to this
> in the matplotlibrc (the mathtext settings), but I am not sure how to
> set them. I would like a font which looks more like Arial or Helvetica
> text, does anybody know how to do this?
>
> Also, I tried to set the default font to Helvetica in the matplotlibrc
> file, but this does not affect the text in the plot. Is it enough to set
>
> font.family : sans-serif
> font.sans-serif : Helvetica
>
> to always use the Helvetica font, also for the axes? Or how do I set
> the font used for the tick labels?
>
> Any pointers would be much appreciated, and apologies if I should have
> overlooked prior posts or documentation! Thanks!
>
> Best regards, Berit
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