Re: [Matplotlib-users] Font by default

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Florent Fayette <fa...@lp...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using matplotlib under Fedora 8 and since an updaet I just realised
> that the default font seems to be serif raher than the previously roman
> font used in LaTeX, as some people observed it also ?
>
> How can I come back to the previous font using the simplest solution ?

I am not sure what font you used previously, but you can use the
font.family setting in the matplotlibrc file (copy this file from
site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc you your home directory
in the ~/.matplotlib directory and edit it.  Eg.

  font.family         : sans-serif  # for san serif

Since you mentioned latex, you can use latex to generate all the fonts
in matplotlib by enabling usetex in matplotlibrc , provided you have
latex and dvipng installed.

  text.usetex         : True

Finally, if you run your matplotlib test script with --verbose-debug
you will get lots of extra information about what settings are used
and what fonts are loaded.

JDH