Peter,
Can you submit this as a pull request on github?
http://matplotlib.org/devel/gitwash/git_development.html
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Peter St. John <peterc.stj...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Finally made this into a patch to allow the dynamic updating of the
> axes.labelpad parameter.
> Hope this is in the appropriate format!
>
> Thanks,
> -- Peter
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Peter St. John <peterc.stj...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Matplotlib-users,
>>
>> I found it was useful to be able to change the default 'Axis.labelpad'
>> parameter, since this value didn't scale when changing the default figure
>> size (in my opinion its easier to prepare figures for publication assuming
>> they'll need to fit in a 1-column figure). I don't consider myself
>> experienced enough to attempt to contribute a patch, but nevertheless here
>> is the hack I used in case anyone has a similar problem:
>>
>> axis.py, line 652:
>> original: self.labelpad = 5
>> changed : self.labelpad = rcParams['axes.labelpad']
>>
>> Then, in rcsetup.py, I added the line (at 578):
>> 'axes.labelpad' : [5.0, validate_float],
>>
>> This lets you put
>> axes.labelpad : 3
>> for instance, in your matplotlibrc to change the default label padding.
>>
>> Anyways, not sure if this is the right mailing list for this type of
>> thing, but just thought I'd contribute it nevertheless.
>>
>> Best,
>> -- Peter
>>
>
>
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