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

[Diakronik <fre...@gm...>]

konstellationen 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  
> 
> 

I ran into the same problem today trying to prepare figures for my thesis,
and I figured out a way to do it...it's not pretty, but it works:

import matplotlib.pyplt as plt
tick_locs = range(start, stop, increment)
plt.xticks(tick_locs, [r"$\mathbf{%s}$" % x for x in tick_locs])

Hope this helps!

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