Before my work in 2004, the colors were not following the line color at all, which was clearly bad behavior.
Now, there are two categories: filled markers (with edge color black and filling following the line color) and non-filled markers (with edge color following line color). The black edge of filled markers is a matter of style which I personally like and would not want to change. The thing that was up for dispute was only about what the edge color of filled markers should do when the filling is switched off. I see three ways to solve this: a) Leave it black. (current behavior) b) Switch mec to line color if mfc is either "none" or "white". c) Switch mec to line color if mfc is not "auto" b) or c) might be what people would expect and prefer, but I feared that it would be one step too many in built-in intelligence. But then - maybe c) would be ok? After all, switching from c) to a) by an explicit mec="k" is simple and obvious, the other way around takes a bit more. Greetings, Norbert Gary Ruben wrote: > Thanks John, > > That shows how long it is since I used line markers in my plots. Because > I use them so infrequently, I'm probably not the best one to suggest it, > but I think it would be nicer for the default colour to match the line > colour by default, or for an option to be added to allow its simple > selection without users having to search through the mailing list to > find Norbert's solution. If I was publishing a colour plot with line > markers I would definitely want to do this. > > Gary > > John Hunter wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Gary Ruben wrote: >> >>> Has the mec always been black? I thought it used to be the same as the >>> line colour. I expected it to default to the line colour, as Che expected. >>> >> It's been this way since at least 2004: >> >> >> http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py?revision=540&view=markup >> >> JDH >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
