Brilliant! It works! Hurrah. I have to say that that is
> not immediately obvious to a newbie. I would have expected
> the rc file setting to work. Oh well... Thanks
Well, the rc setting does work, just not the one you expected. I
updated the rc file to read
# note that font.size controls default text sizes. To configure
# special text sizes tick labels, axes, labels, title, etc, see the rc
# settings for axes and ticks
font.size : medium
Glad you got it working.
JDH