Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 07:07:33 pm Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:04:41PM -0500, bryce hendrix wrote: How stable is the API? We (Enthought) use endo, a custom tool build on top of docutils, to generate our docs currently. We have talked about changing tools in the past,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Darren Dale
I am planning on starting to overhaul the documentation using Sphinx next week. I have been experimenting with Sphinx to create some documentation for a project at work (http://dale.chess.cornell.edu/~darren/xpaxs/index.xml and http://dale.chess.cornell.edu/~darren/temp/XPaXS.pdf). I'm really

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Fix for figsize not being honored in WXAgg WX - How to contribute?

2008-05-22 Thread Stan West
Thanks, John. Here is the patch for the v0_91_maint branch. As far as I can tell, analogous changes can be made to the trunk. Also, I believe that this resolves bug 1287318 for the WX* backends. fix_figsize_wx.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 22 May 2008 09:56:04 am John Hunter wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Darren Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning on starting to overhaul the documentation using Sphinx next week. I have been experimenting with Sphinx to create some documentation for a project at

Re: [matplotlib-devel] zooming related bug? fades to white.

2008-05-22 Thread Eric Firing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Eric, This goes back a bit, but did you get any resolution to the fading problem? I'm having the same problem at the moment, with the latest versions of matplotlib using wxagg on windows. Thanks John John,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 22 May 2008 01:23:53 pm Michael Droettboom wrote: Just something to keep in mind: many of the docstrings are pieced together at import time (to avoid rewriting descriptions of common parameters). Any tool that extracts docstrings by parsing Python rather than importing Python may

Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 22 May 2008 02:05:14 pm John Hunter wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Darren Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, that sounds easier. Here's a taste, it has a bit taken from the users guide, I marked up the CODING_GUIDE, and I used the autodoc extension to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Kienzle
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:44:43PM -0400, Darren Dale wrote: Here is the docstring for the texmanager module: I saw this package for math markup mentioned in the docutils FAQ: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/jensj/latex_math/ It should allow you to include latex markup in the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Darren Dale
I just committed the beginnings of a Sphinx-based documentation to svn. It includes a section explaining how to get up and running with sphinx, its *really easy*: http://dale.chess.cornell.edu/~darren/temp/matplotlib/Users_Guide/documenting_mpl.xml Here is the same documentation in plain text:

Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Darren Dale
On Thursday 22 May 2008 5:03:31 pm Paul Kienzle wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:44:43PM -0400, Darren Dale wrote: Here is the docstring for the texmanager module: I saw this package for math markup mentioned in the docutils FAQ: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/jensj/latex_math/

[matplotlib-devel] matplotlib developers needed

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Kienzle
Hi, We are developing an application for analysing and displaying neutron scattering data in Python, and a big part of this requires good graphics. We are looking for a user interface developer with a science background to help us. Some of this effort will be to improve the matplotlib

Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread Ted Drain
Darren, I think this is a GREAT idea. I've been trying to free up some resources to work on a better MPL user's guide for our users this year. If I can swing it, perhaps we can help contribute some sections. Given that we use the units system extensively, we'd probably have some sections that

Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

2008-05-22 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jsMath! http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsmath/ It's unfortunate that whenever LaTeX math on the web gets brought up, MathML is what everyone thinks of. I guess someone has to write the docutils code for it, though.