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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Mat...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel -- Michael Droettboom Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA