OK,
Thanks for your help.
// Johan
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen <j...@iki.fi> wrote:
> "Johan Ekh" <ekh.jo...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am trying to use helvetica and yes, text(r'$1+2+3={}$1+2+3') gives me
> > helvetica for the non math mode case.
> > But how do I get math mode to use the same font?
>
> You can't. The problem is that while Helvetica contains all the usual
> letters and numbers, TeX math fonts must include Greek letters and a
> variety of symbols. (There exists a commercial Helvetica-like math font
> called HV Math from Micropress Inc.)
>
> Instead of getting math mode to use Helvetica, you want to make the tick
> labels use text mode. I don't think there is existing support for that
> in Matplotlib, but take a look at the Formatter classes in ticker.py -
> if the functionality of OldScalarFormatter is enough for you, use that,
> otherwise you'll have to hack ScalarFormatter to do what you want. If
> you want the labels to look like they do right now except for the font
> of the numbers, I think you could just wrap every number in
> \textsf{...}, but there could be problems with spacing.
>
> > I've tried to set 'mathtext.rm': 'sans-serif' in my params dict
>
> The mathtext options have no effect in usetex mode - everything gets
> rendered by TeX.
>
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