Thanks for the reply.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 June 2008 9:13:15 pm Bill Baxter wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hi Bill,
>> >
>> > On Thursday 19 June 2008 8:18:12 pm Bill Baxter wrote:
>> >> Matplot folks,
>> >> Is there a way to increase all font sizes globally across the board?
>> >> I played around with some RC parameters but they don't seem to have
>> >> any effect.
>> >
>> > Here's a note from the default matplotlibrc:
>> >
>> > # note that font.size controls default text sizes. To configure
>> > # special text sizes tick labels, axes, labels, title, etc, see the rc
>> > # settings for axes and ticks. Special text sizes can be defined
>> > # relative to font.size, using the following values: xx-small, x-small,
>> > # small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large, larger, or smaller
>> > #font.size : 12.0
>> >
>> > You set that size, and then set a relative size (like "medium") for your
>> > other settings. I should include this in the new docs, if it is not
>> > covered already.
>>
>> According to the docs the rc function is supposed to be able to do the
>> same thing as editing matplotlibrc.
>> I tried doing
>> rc('font', size=20)
>> and several variations of that invoked at several different places in
>> my file, and it seemed to have no effect.
>>
>> Did I do it wrong? Does rc() not really work as advertised?
>> Something completely different?
>
> I think in this case, you need to change those settings before importing
> pylab:
>
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.rcParams['font.size'] = 12
> import pylab
I see. I usually just do it in one shot like:
from matplotlib import pylab as plot
> or better yet, do it with a matplotlibrc file
>
>> For what it's worth my matplotlib.pylab.__version__ is '1.1.0'
>
> Really? That looks like numpy's version, not matplotlib's.
I guess it's just namespace weirdness then. Using the import
incantation I gave above, plot.__version__ reports 1.1.0.
matplotlib.__version__ gives '0.98.0'.
I tried putting this in my matplotlibrc but it seems to have no effect:
font.size : 30.0
Just to make sure things were actually working I also tried this:
font.weight : bold
That one worked, all text on the plot turned bold. That suggests to
me that the global font size setting probably just has a bug at the
moment.
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