Indeed, with a fixed value, I could bypass this, but the main issue is
that the documentation says that it should work (xx-small, x-small,
small, medium, large, ... although I don't know if it should be
larger, as indicated in rc() doc, or large as indicated in the font
size doc IIRC).

Matthieu

2010/2/24 Philipp Bender <li...@rootiniert.de>:
> The error is the 'size':'larger', not the passing as keyword arguments. Maybe
> you try to stick (as "workaround") with a fixed number, like  'size':12
>
> It's located in matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py
>
> def validate_float(s):
>    'convert s to float or raise'
>    try: return float(s)
>    except ValueError:
>        raise ValueError('Could not convert "%s" to float' % s)
>
> -> conversion of 'larger' to float fails, I don't know, maybe this should go
> through "validate_fontsize" instead of "validate_float"? Or, if failed in
> validate_floats, to validate_fontsize? Like
>
>
> def validate_float(s):
>    'convert s to float or raise'
>    try: return float(s) or validate_fontsize()
>    except ValueError:
>        raise ValueError('Could not convert "%s" to float' % s)
>
> Regards,
> Philipp
>
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