Hi,
almost every time I create a somewhat more complex figure I have to
fight with the not too smart positioning of the plots and the size of
margins around the axes. From many postings here I have learned that
this is the absolute intention, i.e. it is broken by design unless the
programmer takes care about this.
I have to admin that I do not really get this idea. I am aware that
the defaults will not change anytime soon and so I'd like to ask for
an "idiot-proof" mode: this could be enabled by an rcParam and take
care of proper dimensions, scale axis labels, titles, margins etc so
that they don't cover.
Here's an example for a matplotlib script which is a simple as it can
get and demonstrates the broken layout which a user gets by default.
import scipy
import pylab
x = scipy.linspace(-50,50, 100)
y1 = scipy.rand(100)
y2 = scipy.sin(x)
y3 = y1 + y2
fig = pylab.figure()
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(311)
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(312)
ax3 = fig.add_subplot(313)
ax1.plot(x, y1)
ax2.plot(x, y2)
ax3.plot(x, y3)
ax1.set_title('some title')
ax2.set_title('some title')
ax3.set_title('some title')
pylab.show()
Of course, one can adjust the figsize but the results are still far
from being adorable. The spacing around the sublplots increases for no
apparent reason while the spacing between the subplot remains the same
so that everything looks cramped...
Thank you many times in advance,
best regards,
Daniel
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