Thanks! Alas, this raises a NotImplementedError and although I'm still running version 0.99 of mpl, it seems like this is not yet implemented in the 'errorbar'-function to handle this - or am I mistaken?
I won't find the time to implement this. Anyway, thanks again for your help. It would have been nice, but I can live without it. Christian I won't find the time to implement this. On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 09:18 -0600, Benjamin Root wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Christian Meesters > <meest...@imbie.uni-bonn.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Honestly, I neglected my mpl skills lately, so I don't know > whether docs > on this topic are available, but I couldn't find them either. > > I would like to create a forest plot using horizontal > errorbars. > Currently my marker is simply 'kd' in pylab.errorbar, where > 'd' is > similar to LaTeX's \blacklozenge. > > Is there a way to rotate the marker such that long cross > section is > horizontal (rotation by 90 degree) and not vertical anymore? > > TIA > Christian > > > > Christian, > > Looking through the code for drawing the "thin diamond", I think you > might be able to get what you want by specifying the fillstyle. It > appears that different rotations are applied when the fillstyle is set > to one of "bottom", "top", or "left". "full" is another available > fillstyle, which appears to take a unit rectangle and rotates that 45 > degrees. > > Probably your best bet would be the 'top' fillstyle, which looks like > it does a 90 degree rotation. > > I hope this helps, > Ben Root > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
