matplotlibrc

#text.usetex         : True
#text.latex.unicode : True 
text.latex.preamble :  \usepackage{txfonts}, \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

# Increase the tick-mark lengths (defaults are 4 and 2)
xtick.major.size        :   6
ytick.major.size        :   6 
xtick.minor.size        :   3   
ytick.minor.size        :   3

# Increase the tick-mark widths as well as the widths of lines 
# used to draw marker edges to be consistent with the other figure
# linewidths (defaults are all 0.5)
xtick.major.width       :   1
ytick.major.width       :   1
xtick.minor.width       :   1
ytick.minor.width       :   1
lines.markeredgewidth   :   1

# Have the legend only plot one point instead of two, turn off the 
# frame, and reduce the space between the point and the label  
legend.numpoints        :   1
legend.frameon          :   False
legend.handletextpad    :   0.3