Perfect! That is what I was looking for! 

Thanks a lot! 

Trillian


Benjamin Root-2 wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Trillian <singlebin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> How do I control a width and length of a boxes in a stack plot? Currently
>> with the code I have, I can only control the separation or the
>> white-space
>> between the two plots. I would like the top plot to be larger in length
>> and
>> narrow in width while the bottom plot to have the same width as the top
>> but
>> the length to be much shorter than the top. Please see figure.
>>
>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p33468632/RVs.png RVs.png
>>
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>>
>> import asciitable
>> data = asciitable.read('RVs.dat')
>> # To use the variables in asciitable use col1, col2, etc..
>>
>> from pylab import *
>>
>> f = figure()
>> subplots_adjust(hspace=1)
>>
>> ax1 = subplot(211)
>> ax1.plot(data.col6,data.col5, 'ko')
>> ylabel('RV using GJ406')
>> title('RV comparison')
>>
>> ax2 = subplot(212, sharex=ax1)
>> ax2.plot(data.col6,data.col5-data.col6,'ko' )
>> xlabel('RV (km/s)')
>> ylabel('Residuals (km/s)')
>> # The line below takes away the x-axis values from top plot.
>> xticklabels = ax1.get_xticklabels()+ax2.get_xticklabels()
>> setp(xticklabels, visible=True)
>> savefig('RVs.png')
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Trillian
>>
>>
> Perhaps GridSpec is what you need:
> 
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/gridspec.html
> 
> Cheers!
> Ben Root
> 
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