Re: [Matplotlib-users] using different font families with?LaTeX-generated text

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Thursday 17 May 2007 10:08:06 am Alexander Schmolck wrote:
> "George Nurser" <gn...@go...> writes:
> > I didn't realize that!
> > Apologies for being ignorant here.
>
> No worries, here's a concrete example for selecting Helvetica (and
> commented out, Palatino) as default fonts:
>
>     from matplotlib.pylab import *
>     from numpy import *
>     #rc('font',**dict(family='serif',serif='Palatino'))
>     rc('font',**{'family':'sans-serif','sans-serif':'Helvetica'})
>     rc('text', usetex=True)
>
> Note that I've had problems with font-changes being ignored by latex in
> some version of matplotlib, but not the latest 0.9 -- if in doubt
> ``rm -r ~/.matplotlib/*cache`` and see whether that fixes things.

You should also make your rc changes before importing pylab. That might be 
considered a bug, and would take some work to fix.

> I've added these two things to
>
>  <http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/UsingTex>
>
> Hope that's OK, otherwise please revert.

Would you mind changing it to use the rcParams dict instead of the rc 
function? It is clearer that way.

Darren