That will only work if you have a small-caps variant of the font installed (which the vast majority of fonts do not). matplotlib does not do any font synthesis at all -- i.e. it does not create a pseudo font variation when one does not exist on disk.
Mike On 05/20/2010 10:19 AM, Nick Schurch wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm adding some text to a plt like this: > > import mapplotlib.pyplot as plt > fig=plt.figure() > plt.text(0.5,0.5,"some text", variant='small-caps') > > but the text that is plotted is not small caps, its just normal. Is > this a bug or am I doing something wrong? > > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, Maryland, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users