Hello, um..., P.,
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 03:43, PGM wrote:
> Folks,
> I need your wisdom about ticks labels on ordinates for large numbers
> (>1e4). The default behavior I have (0.87.4) is to display tick labels as
> "%.1f", and write a string "x1e+..." above the top left corner of the
> current axes.
>
> - When using "yaxis.tick_right()", the "x1e..." string stays above the top
> left corner. That becomes an issue when using two different scales. How
> could I force the 'mantissa' string to be on the same side as the axis it
> depends on ?
I'll take care of this, but I will need a few days.
> - How could I change the number of decimals being displayed (for example,
> "%.3f" instead of "%.1f"), while keeping the mantissa string ? (I tried a
> "FormatStrFormatter("%.3f"), it's not what I want. With
> "Funcformatter(lambda x,pos: "%.3f"%(x/1000)))", I lose the mantissa
> string...)
You can write your own custom formatter to do this. You can use
ticker.ScalarFormatter as a guide.
> - Personally, I'm not keen on "3.0 x1e+4", I prefer "30 x1e+3". Is there a
> way to get that ?
Again, this could be handled by a custom formatter.
> I guess that with a bit of trial/error with FuncFormatter and fig.text, I
> should be able to get what I want, but I wanted to check whether there was
> some easier solutions.
Darren
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