Re: [Matplotlib-users] Bold Latex Tick-Labels

[Gökhan S. <gok...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:06 AM, konstellationen
<kon...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi, I am making plots for a publication using matplotlib which requires the
> use of heavy fonts. I am rendering text in the graph with Latex, which has a
> limited capability to make fonts more heavy. I partially solved the problem
> using the \boldmath Latex command for the axis-labels and text inside the
> plot (see attached figure). The only remaining text to be "bolden" are the
> tick labels. I can change their size via the xtick.labelsize rc parameter,
> but do not know how to make them heavier. Does anybody know what can be done
> to solve this? Any help would be appreciated!!!! Best, Daniel
> ------------------------------
>

You can try:

xticklabels = getp(gca(), 'xticklabels')
yticklabels = getp(gca(), 'yticklabels')
setp(xticklabels, fontsize=14, weight='bold')
setp(yticklabels, fontsize=14, weight='bold')

Those are nice looking plots. It would be nice them to be shared on mpl's
gallery or as an example :)

-- 
Gökhan