On 19 December 2011 15:04, Christian Feuersaenger
<cfeuersaen...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Xavier,
>
> There is, indeed, a way to define that stuff globally: just collect all your
> options which make up the global configuration and
> place them into the document's preamble using \pgfplotsset:
>
> \pgfplotsset{
> every axis y label/.style={...},
> <other common key>=<value>,
> }
>
> That's it. Settings assigned with \pgfplotsset{} constitue variables which
> remain in effect until the end of the environment in which \pgfplotsset was
> invoked or until the option has been reset manually.
Thank you.
Now that I have had a look a bit further in the manual this was
explained very clearly there too.
> In case you are also interested in my personal experience with such global
> settings, here are a couple of best-practises:
>
> a) always use a trailing comma (even for the last option)
> b) properly indend your code with one key per line (allows simply
> (un)commenting)
> c) consider using named custom styles, i.e.
>
> \pgfplotsset{
> xavier standard/.style={
> every axis y label/.style={...},
> <other common key>=<value>,
> },
> }
>
> \begin{document}
> ...
> \begin{axis}[xavier standard]
> ...
Great! It is very valuable to start learning and already use
best-practices. :-)
The whole pgfplots and these custom styles are really powerful.
Thank you.
Cheers,
Xavier
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