On Wednesday 05 December 2007 09:39:33 am John Hunter wrote: > On Dec 4, 2007 4:02 PM, Ted Drain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks very nice! We'd love to have smarter layout systems as we > > create a lot of plots for people (i.e. standard scripts that people > > run instead of edit) and it's difficult to apply nice layouts that > > work for every case that comes up. > > > > Can any of this be extended to make the auto-ticking algorithms smart > > enough to not overlap tick mark text fields so much? We get this all > > the time with date plots and it drives people nuts. > > This drives me nuts too -- I almost always do autofmt_xdate. Perhaps > we should just make rotated and right aligned the default for dates. > Particularly in combination with Michael's autolayout, it should help > the common use case. One problem that needs to be addressed is > autofmt_xdate currently raises if you are not using a subplot geometry > (because it turns off xticklabels for the upper subplots), but with a > little thought we could make this more generic to work with general > axes. This is hte main reason I have been holding off making it the > default. > > One other problem to be aware of in this area: usetex does not support > rotated text, so autofmt_xdate and related tricks will still not work > until usetex supports arbitrary rotations. One thing that has been on > my wish list is to expose the agg image functionality a little better > to make things like rotating the ft2font pixel buffer easier.
I mentioned the usetex limitation a while back on mpl-dev, the post was titled "arbitrary rotation of images". Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
