Hello João, thanks for replying On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 13:40, João Luís Silva <jsi...@fc.up.pt> wrote: > Sandro Tosi wrote: >> - what are the (basic) things that, when you were beginning to use >> matplotlib, you wanted to see grouped up but couldn't find? > > I don't know if you consider it basic or not, but I would have liked > better documentation of the object oriented interface (matplotlib). The
could you be a little more specific on what you mean here? >> - what would you like to see in a book about matplotlib? > > As above, at least a chapter about the object oriented interface showing > how to embed matplotlib on a application, and outlining the structure of > the OO interface. Well, this is part of the purpose of the book: show how to embed mpl in applications. >> - what are some those advanced feature that made you yell "WOW!!" ? > > I haven't really used matplotlib's advanced features. There are some > that I like, such as automatic legend placement and mathtext support. mathtext and latex support will be in the advanced features section > The number of supported backends is impressive just by itself, making > matplotlib much more useful. There are some little things such as the > search order for the matplotlibrc file that make it possible to specify > different settings for a given directory. There will be a part even on configuration (of course :) ). >> - what are the things you'd like to explore of matplotlib and never >> had time to do? > > I never had the time to try the masked arrays although I think they will > be useful for me. I should also explore how to create custom color maps. 2 points added to the adv featues list (in part because something was already there, in a different form). >> Your suggestions are really appreciated :) And wish me good luck! > > I was going to! Good luck, I hope you manage to take this project to > completion. Eheh, thanks! I really hope I'll be able to handle even this task :) Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
