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On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Yang Zhang
<a.s...@gm...> wrote:
> Recently I have tried to use latex to render all the texts in a plot for
> consistent look with other texts in a paper. However, it seems that all the
> texts in the plot are rendered in bold font. Please see the attached code.
Can you try with the following setup?
params = {'backend': 'Agg',
 'ps.usedistiller' : 'xpdf',
 'text.usetex' : True,
 'font.family': 'serif',
 'font.serif' : ['Times'],
 }
mpl.rcParams.update(params)
I made all the figures in this paper using these parameters:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.5063v1
Alejandro

Hi,
mpl is a great package. Thanks for the effort first!
Recently I have tried to use latex to render all the texts in a plot for
consistent look with other texts in a paper. However, it seems that all the
texts in the plot are rendered in bold font. Please see the attached code.
==
#!/opt/local/bin/python
from matplotlib.pyplot import *
from matplotlib import rc
rc('text', usetex=True)
rc('font', family='serif')
text(.1, .2, r'first $f(x,y)=x+y\ \mathrm{first}\ \mathbf{first}\
\textrm{first}\ \textnormal{first}$')
xlabel(r'first $f(x,y)=x+y\ \mathrm{first}\ \mathbf{first}\ \textrm{first}\
\textnormal{first}$')
savefig('test_tex.pdf', transparent=True)
==
The text in 1) normal environment (quoted in r'text'), 2) in \textrm{}, 3)
\textnormal{} are the same with 4) \mathbf{}. The only way to produce with
"normal" font is to put the text in \mathrm{}.
The matplotlibrc is default or blank. I was able to reproduce the result
with versions 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 on both linux and mac. And I couldn't find a
quick fix from the internet.
Furthermore, I found that the texts in the tutorial page
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/usetex.html are also bolded: "TeX
is Number ..." is thicker than the font in the following equation and the
tics labels, whose "normal" font can be seen by putting them in \mathrm{}.
It is quite annoying to have inconsistent font in the figure and the main
texts. Could someone look into it? Thanks a million!
A Spherical Chicken

Hello Michael,
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> ipython - **seems unnecessary**
removed
> python-configobj - **necessary only for a long abandoned experimental
> version of matplotlib**
removed
> python-epydoc - **obsolete**
removed
> python-qt4 - **not needed for build**
without it, there's several errors building the docs when rendering
the backend_qt4agg page, so I'll leave it
> python-qt4-dev - **not needed for build**
> python-qt-dev - **obsolete**
removed
> python-traits (>= 2.0) - **not needed -- matplotlib doesn't use traits**
removed
> python-wxgtk2.8 - **not needed for build**
same as for
> python-wxgtk2.8-dbg - **not needed for build**
removed
Thanks for your review!
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi

I was wondering whether this feature has been built-in via specgram (maybe
needs a transformation) or if somebody has wrote something to easily
implement. If not, the current best method of going about it as I don't see
it in the documentation.
Cheers,
Jeff