The name of the Computer Modern Roman font that ships with matplotlib is
"cmr10", so
mpl.rc('font', family = 'serif', serif = 'cmr10')
should work.
Mike
Nicolas Pourcelot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any way to use Computer Modern in any text in matplotlib ?
>
> In http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/customizing.html, I read
> the following :
>
> #font.serif : Bitstream Vera Serif, New Century Schoolbook, Century
> Schoolbook L, Utopia, ITC Bookman, Bookman, Nimbus Roman No9 L, Times New
> Roman, Times, Palatino, Charter, serif
> #font.sans-serif : Bitstream Vera Sans, Lucida Grande, Verdana, Geneva,
> Lucid, Arial, Helvetica, Avant Garde, sans-serif
> #font.cursive : Apple Chancery, Textile, Zapf Chancery, Sand, cursive
> #font.fantasy : Comic Sans MS, Chicago, Charcoal, Impact, Western,
> fantasy
> #font.monospace : Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Andale Mono, Nimbus Mono L,
> Courier New, Courier, Fixed, Terminal, monospace
>
> So, Computer Modern is not listed there.
>
> However, Computer Modern is used in mathtext, so I suppose there is a
> way to use it also in plain text, but I can't figure it...
>
> I tried :
> /mpl.rc('font', family = 'serif', serif = 'computer modern roman')/
> but it did not work.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Nicolas P.
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