Re: [Matplotlib-users] axes control

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Humufr" == Humufr  <hu...@ya...> writes:

    Humufr>           Hello, I would like to know how can I change the
    Humufr> axes properties for the font of the tick label. I was
    Humufr> trying to use something like:

    Humufr> xticklabels = get(gca(), 'xticklabels') set(xticklabels,
    Humufr> 'fontweight', 'bold')

    Humufr> and that's work for some parameter (fontweight for
    Humufr> example) but it's not possible to choose some others like
    Humufr> the font type or the angle.

You need to pick the right property names: rotation rather than angle,
fontname or family for the fontname or family

    from matplotlib.matlab import *

    plot([1,2,3])
    labels = get(gca(), 'xticklabels')
    set(labels, fontweight='bold', rotation=45, fontname='cmr10')

    show()

You may want to read http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/fonts.html and
the fonts section in the rc file to decide if you want to use the
family or fontname property.

I think one of the reasons you may be having problem with the fontname
is that matplotlib appears to fail silently when you specify a font
that it doesn't find.  In this case, it falls back on a known font.
We hope to add a verbose feature so you can get some diagnostic
information about what the font finder is doing.

    Humufr> Another things I saw in the website, a lot of links are
    Humufr> not working (example:
    Humufr> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/figure.html#Axis\ )

That should be
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.figure.html#Axis. 

I fixed this (in my local copy).  Let me know if you find some more.

JDH