Hello everyone, I am a long time PyX user, I used it to prepare some figures in my thesis back in 2005 and have been using it on and off over the years. Let me start by expressing my gratitude for building such a nice and useful tool.
Recently I used PyX for a project of mine, a celestial events almanac: https://github.com/atakan/PySkyAlmanac I hope this project can serve to demonstrate the capabilities of PyX. Using PyX for this project allowed me to notice some fine points that are not explained in the manual. I resolved the issues I encountered by trial-error, but I am sure there must be other (and more robust) ways. Here are a few questions I pondered: -- Is there a natural way to produce color gradient plots as in the background of the chart I prepared? I do this by making a graphxyz, switching off the grid and the axes, and looking at the graph from the top. -- How is the location and size of a graph determined when it is inserted to a canvas, as in here? How are the scale and translation factors calculated? -- What is the format for dash patterns? In particular what is the size and the separation of the dots in a dotted line pattern? How does this change with various parameters, e.g. linewidth? -- Is there a way to incorporate PStricks into PyX? I needed this for the textpath feature of PStricks: http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=Examples/textpath Maybe something like this can be implemented in PyX? Thanks again for a very useful tool! atakan gürkan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 Ways to Improve & Secure Unified Communications Unified Communications promises greater efficiencies for business. UC can improve internal communications as well as offer faster, more efficient ways to interact with customers and streamline customer service. Learn more! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426253/ _______________________________________________ PyX-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyx-user
