I am having trouble figuring out how to control the weight of labels
and text with the usetex option set to True. I would like to force
all mathmode labels and text to be at least bold. I can imagine doing
this either by substituting a font (i.e. changing the mathtext.fontset
to 'custom' and all of the different matext.?? to some boldface font),
or some the font.weight rc parameter, but neither of these has any
effect - whatever I do, the mathmode and other TeX formatted text
stays the same weight. How can I make it just turn up the weights to
bold without changing anything else?
First to correct some confusion (and a good candidate to add to the new docs that everyone is working so hard on...): mathtext and usetex are completely independent systems, and you can only use either one of the other. Therefore, if usetex is True, none of the mathtext settings will have any effect.
Erik Tollerud wrote:
I am having trouble figuring out how to control the weight of labels
and text with the usetex option set to True. I would like to force
all mathmode labels and text to be at least bold. I can imagine doing
this either by substituting a font (i.e. changing the mathtext.fontset
to 'custom' and all of the different matext.?? to some boldface font),
or some the font.weight rc parameter, but neither of these has any
effect - whatever I do, the mathmode and other TeX formatted text
stays the same weight. How can I make it just turn up the weights to
bold without changing anything else?
This is not something that is directly supported. When usetex is True, all of the rendering happens with (La)TeX, so you're limited by what (La)TeX can do. You would probably need to find some LaTeX package that does this, and then \include it in the LaTeX preamble using the "text.latex.preamble" setting. My quick Googling didn't reveal anything that can do that, however.
You can get bold in a math expression by enclosing content in \mathbf{}, but that is by definition "upright" bold. The reason, I believe, is that (core) LaTeX simply doesn't include the fonts for Greek characters and other symbols in bold.
Cheers,
Mike
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Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA
Ah, that makes much more sense for the labels... what about the
commands for assigning weights and fonts to the default numbers along
an axis? I know I saw a post a while back where someone was able to
make the numbers boldface ... is that not rendered via TeX? And if so,
why do none of the options I changed seem to have any effect on those
numbers?
Thanks!
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On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Michael Droettboom <mdroe@...86...> wrote:
First to correct some confusion (and a good candidate to add to the new docs
that everyone is working so hard on...): mathtext and usetex are completely
independent systems, and you can only use either one of the other.
Therefore, if usetex is True, none of the mathtext settings will have any
effect.Erik Tollerud wrote:
I am having trouble figuring out how to control the weight of labels
and text with the usetex option set to True. I would like to force
all mathmode labels and text to be at least bold. I can imagine doing
this either by substituting a font (i.e. changing the mathtext.fontset
to 'custom' and all of the different matext.?? to some boldface font),
or some the font.weight rc parameter, but neither of these has any
effect - whatever I do, the mathmode and other TeX formatted text
stays the same weight. How can I make it just turn up the weights to
bold without changing anything else?This is not something that is directly supported. When usetex is True, all
of the rendering happens with (La)TeX, so you're limited by what (La)TeX can
do. You would probably need to find some LaTeX package that does this, and
then \include it in the LaTeX preamble using the "text.latex.preamble"
setting. My quick Googling didn't reveal anything that can do that,
however.You can get bold in a math expression by enclosing content in \mathbf{}, but
that is by definition "upright" bold. The reason, I believe, is that (core)
LaTeX simply doesn't include the fonts for Greek characters and other
symbols in bold.Cheers,
Mike--
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA