Re: [Matplotlib-users] Escaping in matplotlib.font_manager.findfont('sans\\-serif')

2012-03-27 Thread Martin Mokrejs
Hi Michael, I was playing with python directly, so: $ python Python 2.7.2 (default, Mar 10 2012, 02:39:52) [GCC 4.5.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from matplotlib import font_manager >>> font_manager.path '/home/mmokrejs/.fonts' >>> font

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Escaping in matplotlib.font_manager.findfont('sans\\-serif')

2012-03-26 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 03/26/2012 04:36 PM, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > Hi, >I wondered why the matplotlib.font_manager.rcParams contains sometimes > escaped minus signs in font names: font_manager.rcParams['mathtext.sf'] > 'sans\\-serif' font_manager.findfont('sans-serif') > Traceback (most recent call last

[Matplotlib-users] Escaping in matplotlib.font_manager.findfont('sans\\-serif')

2012-03-26 Thread Martin Mokrejs
Hi, I wondered why the matplotlib.font_manager.rcParams contains sometimes escaped minus signs in font names: >>> font_manager.rcParams['mathtext.sf'] 'sans\\-serif' >>> >>> font_manager.findfont('sans-serif') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib64/python2.