Friedrich, Our e-mails crossed. I don't think the numbers need to have the same exponent. I would go with (d) as my example does. The more difficult part to my mind is the number of significant digits to use. The current code that determines whether to use an offset or not must look at the number of significant digits needed to represent the ticklabels. To me what would be optimal is to, by default, use scientific notation (when the ticklabel numbers are larger or smaller than some range, say 10^3 and 10^-3) except when an offset is called for, say more than 3 significant digits are needed to represent the ticklabel numbers in scientific notation.
Jon On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 21:41 +0200, Friedrich Romstedt wrote: > 2010/10/19 David Pine <djp...@gmail.com>: > > I like the times symbol but others prefer the dot (which I missed in the > > gmane preview!). So I like your suggestion of providing an option to use > > either \cdot or \times. > > Okay, I'll try to look into it next week, is that okay with you both? > I don't want to do it now since there might be more under the hood, > just thinking about automatic exponent choice, I have a module for > that, but it needs to pick up all the range the formatter spans over. > > I'd say we also have use for three other configs of the exponent choice: > a) largest > b) smallest > c) mean > d) dynamic > exponent. > > Examples: > (a) 0.001 10^2 ... 2.0 10^2 > (b) 1.0 10^-1 ... 200.0 10^-1 > (c) 0.01 10^1 ... 20.0 10^1 > (d) 1.0 10^-1 ... 2.0 10^2 > Sorry if there's some mistake but you see the principle. > > Also the number of digits present need to be configurable ... enough for a > week. > > I favour (c) as the default, and 2 digits precision. > > Friedrich -- ______________________________________________________________ Jonathan D. Slavin Harvard-Smithsonian CfA jsla...@cfa.harvard.edu 60 Garden Street, MS 83 phone: (617) 496-7981 Cambridge, MA 02138-1516 cell: (781) 363-0035 USA ______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
