axes control

Hello,

I would like to know how can I change the axes properties for the font of the tick label. I was trying to use something like:

xticklabels = get(gca(), 'xticklabels')
set(xticklabels, 'fontweight', 'bold')

and that's work for some parameter (fontweight for example) but it's not possible to choose some others like the font type or the angle.

Another things I saw in the website, a lot of links are not working (example: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/figure.html#Axis )

Thanks,

       Nicolas