Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with sans-serif fonts and tick labels with TeX

2013-05-02 Thread Michael Droettboom
I think the confusion here stems from the fact that you're mixing TeX and non-TeX font commands. This turns on TeX mode, so all of the text is rendered with an external TeX installation: rc('text', usetex=True) In this line, setting it to sans-serif will get passed along to TeX, but a speci

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with sans-serif fonts and tick labels with TeX

2013-05-02 Thread Paul Hobson
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > I think the confusion here stems from the fact that you're mixing TeX > and non-TeX font commands. > > This turns on TeX mode, so all of the text is rendered with an external > TeX installation: > > rc('text', usetex=True) > > In this

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with sans-serif fonts and tick labels with TeX

2013-05-03 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 05/02/2013 03:16 PM, Paul Hobson wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Michael Droettboom > wrote: I think the confusion here stems from the fact that you're mixing TeX and non-TeX font commands. This turns on TeX mode, so all of the text is rendered w

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with sans-serif fonts and tick labels with TeX

2013-05-03 Thread Juergen Hasch
> > The solution I use when I want all sans-serif out of TeX is to use the > cmbright package, which can be turned on by adding: > > rc('text.latex', preamble=r'\usepackage{cmbright}') > > That may require installing the cmbright LaTeX package if you don't already > have it. I am using the sfmat

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with sans-serif fonts and tick labels with TeX

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Hobson
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On 05/02/2013 03:16 PM, Paul Hobson wrote > > I now see that this was more of TeX issue than an MPL configuration > issue. Your help prompted me to find this solution (similar to yours): > mpl.rcParams['text.latex.preamble'] = [ >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with sans-serif fonts and tick labels with TeX

2013-05-03 Thread Felix Patzelt
H, I'm using sfmath, too. I actually wrote a helper function to switch fonts. The preambles are the result of long-term trial and error. Normally, my preambles include some more custom commands which I left out here because they would be distracting. I always wondered why matplotlib doesn't do t