Support fontconfig syntax in Text constructor.

mdboom · mdboom · commit 579e2d6e5de1 · 2007-12-12T14:52:01.000Z
svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=4707
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/text.py b/lib/matplotlib/text.py
@@ -675,6 +675,8 @@ def set_fontproperties(self, fp):
 
         ACCEPTS: a matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties instance
         """
+        if is_string_like(fp):
+            fp = FontProperties(fp)
         self._fontproperties = fp
 
 artist.kwdocd['Text'] = artist.kwdoc(Text)
