This seems to be related to the change to pickle cache the entire
FontManager class. If you delete ~/.matplotlibrc/fontManager.cache, the
font.size setting takes effect.
I made a small change in r3861 that should fix this problem.
Cheers,
Mike
Darren Dale wrote:
> It appears that relative font sizing is broken in svn. It used to be possible
> to do this:
>
> from matplotlib import rcParams
> rcParams['font.size']=6
> rcParams['xtick.labelsize']='small'
> import pylab
> pylab.plot([1,2])
> pylab.text(0.1, 1.75, 'look how small I am compared to the ticks')
> pylab.show()
>
> and any of the various text sizes like ticklabels, axis labels, titles, etc,
> would be sized relative to font.size. It looks like relative sizes are no
> longer scaled to font.size, but some fixed value. Does anyone know what has
> changed?
>
> Thanks,
> Darren
>
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