David M. Kaplan wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded to matplotlib 0.98.1 on a ubuntu hardy heron system. I > have noticed two problems since the upgrade: > > 1) For any plot, if I try to look at the properties of a text object I > get an error related to FontProperties having no attribute 'items'. See > below: > > In [1]: plot(range(10)) > Out[1]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x924f9ac>] > > In [2]: xlh=get(gca(),'xticklabels') > > In [3]: get(xlh[0]) > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module> > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line > 724, in get > return getp(o, *args, **kwargs) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line > 716, in getp > print '\n'.join(insp.pprint_getters()) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line > 684, in pprint_getters > s = str(val) > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", > line 681, in __str__ > return self.get_fontconfig_pattern() > File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", > line 737, in get_fontconfig_pattern > return generate_fontconfig_pattern(self) > File > "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/fontconfig_pattern.py", > line 164, in generate_fontconfig_pattern > for key, val in d.items(): > <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'FontProperties' object has no > attribute 'items' > Thanks for the report. This is a bug and should now be fixed in SVN. > 2) I have noticed that the font used for the xticklabels and the font > used for the xlabel and contour labels appears to be different (example > attached). One appears to be serif and the other sans-serif. This > seems to be due to using tex for text rendering. I am not sure if this > also occurred before the update, but I didn't notice it previously. > Looking at the properties of the different text objects, it isn't > apparent that there should be a difference - both have font properties > that indicate sans-serif, but the text of tick labels appears to be > surrounded by $'s forcing it through the text parser, while that of the > contour labels is not. Is this difference normal or expected? Is there > a way around this? In particular, I would like to use sans-serif for > everything - is this possible while still using tex? > To clarify -- you've set the rcParam "text.usetex" to True?
If the tick labels are in fact surrounded by $'s, then, yes, TeX will render then in a serif font. This is the default behavior of TeX (math is in a serif font) -- though there might be a special package you could add to the preamble (the rcParam text.latex.preamble) to change this, but that's more of a (La)TeX issue. Looking at the revision history, it looks like putting $'s around tick labels has been done since at least 0.90.1. Perhaps one of the usetex developers/users has more insight into this than I do. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
