Thanks Darren, Then, I guess, the easiest solution is to either use to set all tick labels manually or to just use serif fonts ;-).
Christian On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 09:57 -0400, Darren Dale wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Christian Meesters > <meest...@imbie.uni-bonn.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to have all sub-fonts (labels, tick labels, text) sans-serif > > for a series of plots per default. However the appropriate settings > > in .matplotlibrc apparently don't work and this also does not work: > > > > import matplotlib as mpl > > mpl.rcParams['text.usetex'] = True > > mpl.rcParams['font.family'] = 'sans-serif' > > mpl.rcParams['font.sans-serif'] = 'Bitstream Vera Sans' > > usetex uses latex's math mode for rendering ticklabels, and mathmode > is rendered in serif. We tried supporting sans-serif once, and it > turned out to be too complicated to cover all the corner cases. I > think there may be a latex package that can be loaded for sans-serif > math mode, but I don't remember what it is called. You could add that > package invocation to your text.latex.preamble, but please note that > text.latex.preamble is not officially supported (because it is so > flexible, we don't want to troubleshoot latex issues on this list.) > > Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
