Florian Koelling wrote: > Hi Folks! > > I want to create a bar chart having 85 different Objects, each Object > owning a certain name of four letters -- I followed the examples on > the matplotlib examples page - so far so good. > > I have some problems with the y_labeling because every objects name is > overlaid by it' s neighbour and so a proper assignment is not > possible. I tried to change the bar size, but that did not have any > effect on the y_label.
I think you are talking about labels for the bars, not tick labels or the y-axis label, correct? > > Is it possible to display the object names vertical 1 > y > k > 7 > > instead of horizontal (1yk7) to obtain a better readable figure? > or maybe some of you have a better idea? Yes, text objects can be rotated. In the barchart_demo.py example, you can add to the text command the keyword argument rotation='vertical' (or give a number for angle in degrees). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
