Hi Ben,
Thanks. Using label_outer() does, as you say, only show labels on the edge
and that is something I wanted to do. It doesn't, however, make a common
y-axis label and a common x-axis label (instead there are now 2 of each,
instead of 4). It appears that I might be able to add a common y and x label
by brute-forcing the labels with text, along the lines of something like:
fig.text(0.5,0.04,'common xlabel',ha='center',va='center')
fig.text(0.00,0.5,'common
> ylabel',ha='center',va='center',rotation='vertical')
Now I just need to play with spacing and change precise ticklabels and I'll
be able to finish this plot up!
Thanks everyone,
Brad
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Brad Malone <brad.mal...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeffrey,
>>
>> Thanks the response. Sorry about the term "global axis". That was clearly
>> not the best way to say it. What I meant to say is global x axis LABEL and
>> y-axis LABEL. This can be seen in this example (
>> http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Multiple_Subplots_with_One_Axis_Label?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Same_ylabel_subplots.png
>> )
>>
>> although when I tried to do something similar with a 2x2 grid of plots it
>> didn't seem to be working for me. Their example works due to these lines
>> here
>>
>> import pylab
>>> 2
>>> 3 figprops = dict(figsize=(8., 8. / 1.618), dpi=128)
>>> # Figure properties
>>> 4 adjustprops = dict(left=0.1, bottom=0.1, right=0.97, top=0.93,
>>> wspace=0.2 hspace=0.2) # Subplot properties
>>> 5
>>> 6 fig = pylab.figure(**figprops)
>>> # New figure
>>> 7 fig.subplots_adjust(**adjustprops)
>>> # Tunes the subplot layout
>>> 8
>>> 9 ax = fig.add_subplot(3, 1, 1)
>>> 10 bx = fig.add_subplot(3, 1, 2, sharex=ax, sharey=ax)
>>> 11 cx = fig.add_subplot(3, 1, 3, sharex=ax, sharey=ax)
>>> 12
>>> 13 ax.plot([0,1,2], [2,3,4], 'k-')
>>> 14 bx.plot([0,1,2], [2,3,4], 'k-')
>>> 15 cx.plot([0,1,2], [2,3,4], 'k-')
>>> 16
>>> 17 pylab.setp(ax.get_xticklabels(), visible=False)
>>> 18 pylab.setp(bx.get_xticklabels(), visible=False)
>>> 19
>>> 20 bx.set_ylabel('This is a long label shared among more axes',
>>> fontsize=14)
>>> 21 cx.set_xlabel('And a shared x label', fontsize=14)
>>
>>
>>
>> specifically probably the bx/cx_set label commands coupled with the sharex
>> commands in the subplot label. But when I tried to add these things for my
>> 2x2 plot it always looked like the label was attached to one of the plots or
>> another instead of spanning the whole range.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brad
>>
>>
> Maybe the label_outer() function will be what you need. Call it for each
> subplot axes, and set the labels as you would normally. matplotlib would
> then set visible only the labels that are on the outside edge.
>
> Another option is to use the AxesGrid1 toolkit, which makes these things
> easy. Also note that the soon-to-be released v1.1 will have a
> tight_layout() function that can help with your spacing issues.
>
> Cheers!
> Ben Root
>
>
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