Jeff, I send all of my figures through LaTeX and don't have this problem. The only thing I can think of is to check your matplotlibrc file and make sure you've set the legend font to be the same size as the other fonts.
HTH, -paul h. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffrey Blackburne [mailto:je...@mit.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:45 AM > To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Matplotlib-users] LateX Legend (again) > > Hi everyone, > > This has been brought up before, but not completely addressed. Is it > possible to get the text in a Legend to match the rest of the text > when using LateX? Here is an example of the problem: > > import matplotlib as mpl > mpl.rcParams['text.usetex'] = True > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > > fig = plt.figure() > ax = fig.add_subplot(111) > ax.plot([1,5,2,3]) # random data > plt.figlegend(ax.lines,[r'$\rm{label}$ label'],loc='upper left') > plt.show() > > The first word is at least in a roman font, but the font size is > wrong. I am using svn revision 8005 with gtkagg backend on linux, and > confirm the behavior with 0.99.0 with tkagg on OS X. > > Thanks, > Jeff > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users