konstellationen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am making plots for a publication using matplotlib which requires the
> use of heavy fonts. I am rendering text in the graph with Latex, which has
> a limited capability to make fonts more heavy. I partially solved the
> problem using the \boldmath Latex command for the axis-labels and text
> inside the plot (see attached figure). The only remaining text to be
> "bolden" are the tick labels. I can change their size via the
> xtick.labelsize rc parameter, but do not know how to make them heavier.
>
> Does anybody know what can be done to solve this?
>
> Any help would be appreciated!!!!
>
> Best, Daniel
>
>
I ran into the same problem today trying to prepare figures for my thesis,
and I figured out a way to do it...it's not pretty, but it works:
import matplotlib.pyplt as plt
tick_locs = range(start, stop, increment)
plt.xticks(tick_locs, [r"$\mathbf{%s}$" % x for x in tick_locs])
Hope this helps!
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