On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
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>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:31 AM, William Furnass <w...@thearete.co.uk>wrote:
>>
>>> Did anything ever come of the MPL black and white mode mentioned in
>>> the following? I rarely want to produce colour plots and having an
>>> inbuilt mechanism for cycling through line styles that can be
>>> activated with a keyword argument would be very handy.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00367.html
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Will
>>>
>>>
>> Perhap's Tony Yu's mpltools might be the closest we have gotten to this
>> goal. There has been a number of technical hurdles that I have not had the
>> time or resources to iron out. Hopefully, it will be helpful to you.
>>
>> http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/getting_started.html
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Ben Root
>>
>
> Thanks for the advertisement Ben ;)
>
> Will: If you're just interested in grayscale plotting, here's a direct
> link to the example:
>
>
> http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/auto_examples/style/plot_grayscale.html
>
> The discussion that you link to talks specifically about line styles. In
> the past there's been discussion of adding a linestyle cycle rc param, but
> I don't think there's been progress on that front.
>
> BTW, Ben: are you still thinking about some sort of hierarchical
> configuration management? I think it'd make a great MEP, if you find the
> time.
>
>
Not necessarily a hierarchical config management, but rather a hierarchical
property management. Of course, this was before I discovered
GraphicsContext, which makes me wonder if it could be generalized and moved
out of the backends to serve such a purpose.
Of course, with regards to rcparams, we definitely need to re-examine how
we are doing it right now before it gets too bloated...
Ben Root
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