You can make the use of tex automatic by setting text.usetex to True in your rc file
### TEXT # text properties used by text.Text. See # http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.text.html for more # information on text properties text.color : black text.usetex : True # use tex/latex for all text handling. See http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib.texmanager.html text.tex.engine : latex # tex is faster, but latex is required to use special font packages The default tex font is a serif. The distribution texmanager ignores the font.family in the rc file. Robert Kern provided another fix: add to the top of the get_tex_command in matplotlib-0.83.2/lib/matplotlib/texmanager.py the following fontcmd = {'sans-serif': r'{\sffamily %s}', 'monospace': r'{\ttfamily %s}'}.get(rcParams['font.family'], r'{\rmfamily %s}') tex = fontcmd % tex This is what mine looked like def get_tex_command(self, tex, fname): fh = file(fname, 'w') #Added by SamuelSmith so tex respects font-family from rc file fontcmd = {'sans-serif': r'{\sffamily %s}', 'monospace': r'{\ttfamily %s}'}.get(rcParams['font.family'], r'{\rmfamily %s}') tex = fontcmd % tex #End addition Then reinstall matplotlib Now your plots use the font.family for text so you can select serif or sans-serif for example font.family : sans-serif _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
