On Thursday 19 June 2008 9:13:15 pm Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > On Thursday 19 June 2008 8:18:12 pm Bill Baxter wrote:
> >> Matplot folks,
> >> Is there a way to increase all font sizes globally across the board?
> >> I played around with some RC parameters but they don't seem to have
> >> any effect.
> >
> > Here's a note from the default matplotlibrc:
> >
> > # note that font.size controls default text sizes. To configure
> > # special text sizes tick labels, axes, labels, title, etc, see the rc
> > # settings for axes and ticks. Special text sizes can be defined
> > # relative to font.size, using the following values: xx-small, x-small,
> > # small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large, larger, or smaller
> > #font.size : 12.0
> >
> > You set that size, and then set a relative size (like "medium") for your
> > other settings. I should include this in the new docs, if it is not
> > covered already.
>
> According to the docs the rc function is supposed to be able to do the
> same thing as editing matplotlibrc.
> I tried doing
> rc('font', size=20)
> and several variations of that invoked at several different places in
> my file, and it seemed to have no effect.
>
> Did I do it wrong? Does rc() not really work as advertised?
> Something completely different?
I think in this case, you need to change those settings before importing
pylab:
import matplotlib
matplotlib.rcParams['font.size'] = 12
import pylab
or better yet, do it with a matplotlibrc file
> For what it's worth my matplotlib.pylab.__version__ is '1.1.0'
Really? That looks like numpy's version, not matplotlib's.
Darren
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