You might be able to do this (before importing pyplot or pylab):
matplotlib.rcParams['text.usetex'] = True
matplotlib.rcParams['text.latex.preamble'] = '\usepackage{libertine}'
and optionally (if you have xpdf or poppler installed):
matplotlib.rcParams['ps.usedistiller'] = 'xpdf'
Good luck,
Jeff
On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Thøger Emil Juul Thorsen wrote:
> Sorry, perhaps I should have specified;
>
> I'm using usetex, and Libertine is not among the supported fonts. In the
> example RC file, it said that if any font was wanted, that could be
> loaded with a \usepackage command, one should request it on the mailing
> list.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 14:29 -0400, Stan West wrote:
>>> From: Thøger Emil Juul Thorsen [mailto:thoe...@fys.ku.dk]
>>> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 14:04
>>>
>>> I'm using the excellent font Linux Libertine for writing my thesis, in
>>> which I do my plotting in matplotlib. I would really love to
>>> be ablu to
>>> have consistent fonts in both text and graphs - is this
>>> possible? I know
>>> it can be loaded by \usepackage{libertine}.
>>
>> For ordinary text objects, one way is to set the font.family rcParam to the
>> font name. You could do this either in a matplotlibrc file in an appropriate
>> location or in your code dynamically [1]. If you'll be using mathtext, also
>> see the "Fonts" section and "Custom fonts" subsection at [2]; for LaTeX, [3].
>>
>> [1] http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/customizing.html
>>
>> [2] http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/mathtext.html#fonts
>>
>> [3] http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/usetex.html
>
>
>
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