I'm surprised.  That works for me.  Can you (again) set verbose.level to 
"debug-annoying" and send the output?

Cheers,
Mike

David M. Kaplan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.  I have stopped using the usetex option.  To
> make math and normal text match, I tried the following:
>
> rcParams['font.family'] = 'serif'
> rcParams['mathtext.fontset'] = 'stix'
>
> This didn't make them match - normal text looked to me like it was still
> sans-serif, while mathtext was with serif.  Is there something else I
> should be doing to make this happen?
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:52 -0400, Darren Dale wrote:
>   
>> Hi David,
>>
>> On Thursday 10 July 2008 11:15:37 am David M. Kaplan wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> It has always been this way. We tried a workaround once a couple years back 
>> and it turned into a real mess.
>>
>>     
>>> 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?
>>>       
>> I think there is a package, sansmath or something like that, that will allow 
>> latex to use sans-serif fonts in math mode. You could try adding it to the 
>> text.latex.preamble rc setting, but that option is not officially supported.
>>
>> If you don't like the limitations of latex, you might want to turning off 
>> usetex and just use matplotlibs mathtext, which recently got a significant 
>> rewrite and is now quite capable thanks to Mike Droettboom. Here's some 
>> documentation too:
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/doc/html/users/mathtext.html
>>
>> Darren
>>     

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA


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