Thanks Thomas, that's great to know. I'll try using a newer version from Github, and nice that the correction will gradually propagate to our users.
I'll ask my other questions on the user list; thanks for explaining! Andy On 26/10/14 16:18, Thomas Caswell wrote: > Andy, > > The issue of the axes frame corners _should_ be fixed in 1.4 > > The user mailing list is still a going concern, the SF archives are just > broken. They know (and the archive pages are _less_ broken than they > used to be), but have not fixed it yet. > > Tom > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Andy Buckley <a...@insectnation.org > <mailto:a...@insectnation.org>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a question/request about improving a minor aspect of plot > cosmetics, namely that axis spines seem to be rendered as 4 individual > lines, meaning that the corners of the axes boundary do not match up > with a neat corner but have a "stair" appearance. I've attached a > screenshot from a zoomed PDF showing this effect, made with MPL 1.3.1 > from Ubuntu 14.04... so apologies if it's already fixed in the latest > 1.4.x versions. This effect is also visible in PNG output, as just a > couple of pixels in the corners that look "ragged". Would it be possible > to tidy this up... or point me to where in the code this rendering is > done, if it's something easy that I could maybe help with? > > At the same time, I note in this zoom that the axis is showing tick > marks at the very end(s) of the axis, where they overlap with the other > axis/plot boundary line: is there an automatic way to elide tick marks > in that redundant position? > > Apologies if this isn't a good place for these queries/requests -- I had > a look at the matplotlib-user and -announce list archives linked from > the web page and they seem to have gone defunct in 2012, hence coming > here. I am happy to do a bit of development to address little cosmetic > tweaks like this, but am not yet familiar with MPL internals. > > Thanks! > Andy > > PS. I also have a question about how to enable old-style figures in a > font when using the TeX/PGF rendering backed, cf. > \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo}, but I'll wait to see if this is an > appropriate place for such questions before troubling you with that! > > -- > Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow > Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > > > > > -- > Thomas Caswell > tcasw...@gmail.com <mailto:tcasw...@gmail.com> -- Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
