Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting font of axes ticklabels and making labels not overlap

[per f. <per...@gm...>]

thank you for your reply. when i try either of the first suggestions about
changing the fonts, i get the error:

AttributeError: 'FontProperties' object has no attribute 'get_slant'

any idea what this means?

also, i do not mind setting the position of each tickmark individually but i
cannot find a way to do this -- could you please explain how this can be
done?

thanks again.


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:

> > but it does not work. i tried similarly setting the font size (with
> > set_size() or through rcParams) but it did not work either. how can i do
> > this? i'd like to do this either on per axes basis, or for the entire
> > figure.
>
> It seems that changing rcParams is not effective because of the way
> how the font caching is done. Here is a little monkey patching to
> change this behavior.
>
> from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
>
> def my_hash(self):
>    l = dict([(k, getattr(self, "get" + k)()) for k in self.__dict__])
>    return hash(repr(l))
>
> FontProperties.__hash__ = my_hash
>
>
> With this code, changing rcParams will affect (most of) the text in the
> figure.
>
> As far as I know, you cannot have a default font properties on per
> axes basis. You need to manually change the font properties of Text
> artists in your interests.
>
> For example, to change the font properties of the xtick labels,
>
> fp = FontProperties(family="Lucida Sans Typewriter")
> ax = gca()
> for t in ax.get_xticklabels():
>    t.set_fontproperties(fp)
>
>
> >
> > second, how can i make it so axes labels do not overlap? in many plots,
> > including ones in the gallery, you see the labels at the origin of plots
> get
> > too close to each other. (i.e. the 0.0 of x-axis and 0.0 of y-axis) - how
> > can you prevent this from happening?
> >
>
> I don't think there is a smart way to prevent it other than manually
> changing the tick positions. Other may have better ideas.
>
> -JJ
>