From: Bill B. <wb...@gm...> - 2008-06-20 01:13:17
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On Thursday 19 June 2008 8:18:12 pm Bill Baxter wrote: >> Matplot folks, >> Is there a way to increase all font sizes globally across the board? >> I played around with some RC parameters but they don't seem to have >> any effect. > > Here's a note from the default matplotlibrc: > > # note that font.size controls default text sizes. To configure > # special text sizes tick labels, axes, labels, title, etc, see the rc > # settings for axes and ticks. Special text sizes can be defined > # relative to font.size, using the following values: xx-small, x-small, > # small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large, larger, or smaller > #font.size : 12.0 > > You set that size, and then set a relative size (like "medium") for your other > settings. I should include this in the new docs, if it is not covered > already. According to the docs the rc function is supposed to be able to do the same thing as editing matplotlibrc. I tried doing rc('font', size=20) and several variations of that invoked at several different places in my file, and it seemed to have no effect. Did I do it wrong? Does rc() not really work as advertised? Something completely different? For what it's worth my matplotlib.pylab.__version__ is '1.1.0' --bb |