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Improve warning message for missing font family specified via alias. #18927

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@anntzer anntzer commented Nov 10, 2020

See example of warning message in the test.

Closes #18926.

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if family in font_family_aliases:
_log.warning(
"findfont: Font family %r not found because none "
"of the following families were found: %s",
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Is this families, or fonts?

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These are all families (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-family), a "font" includes not only the family but also the size, etc. I did slightly reword the message to refer to (e.g.) "sans" as a "generic family", though (again following CSS terminology).

@QuLogic QuLogic merged commit ba82993 into matplotlib:master Nov 13, 2020
@QuLogic QuLogic added this to the v3.4.0 milestone Nov 13, 2020
@anntzer anntzer deleted the mf branch November 13, 2020 09:12
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Font not installed, unclear warning
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