Chaitanya Krishna <icym...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Paul Anton Letnes > <paul.anton.let...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> When I run the script below, the xlabel and ylabel do not show up. If I >> increase the figure size, it all works fine. > > I am not sure if it is a bug. But, it is usual that such a thing > happens when you are making small figures (like in your case).
Arguably it is a bug, since it is reasonable to expect that when you set an xlabel or ylabel (or, say, large yticklabels), it shows up in the figure. There are at least two problems to solve here: what should the user interface be like, and how can it best be implemented? The user interface question seems difficult to me. If you set the figure size to something small (as in this case) and then add labels, should matplotlib reduce the area available for the plot? Or should it reduce the font size of the labels and the tick labels, and perhaps the amount of white space between the axes and the labels? Or some combination of these? The implementation question could also be somewhat hairy, since the bounding box of text objects depends on the backend. If agg and pdf disagree on the size of a label, is it OK to get different-looking results in png and pdf? -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
