Re: [Matplotlib-users] making minor ticks into lines instead of ticks

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Withers
Eric Firing wrote: I can get the major ticks to show by doing grid(True), but how do I get the same effect for minor ticks? Try grid(True, which='minor') Thanks, that worked (well, it did what it was supposed to...) so it'd be nice if it was in the online docs as well as the docstring

Re: [Matplotlib-users] making minor ticks into lines instead of ticks

2008-03-18 Thread Matthias Michler
Hello Chris, for only horizontal lines you can use 'ax.yaxis.grid' like: --- from pylab import * figure() ax = axes() ax.set_yticks([0.0,0.5,1.0], minor=False) ax.set_yticks(list(linspace(0.0, 1.0, 11)), minor=True) ax.yaxis.grid(which='minor')

Re: [Matplotlib-users] making minor ticks into lines instead of ticks

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Withers
Matthias Michler wrote: ax.yaxis.grid(which='minor') This is what I was after, thankyou :-) However, the lines show up on top of the lines plotted, not behind them as I'd expect. I tried fiddling with the zorder of the plot and the grid but nothing had any effect. What am I doing wrong? How

Re: [Matplotlib-users] making minor ticks into lines instead of ticks

2008-03-17 Thread Eric Firing
Chris Withers wrote: Hi All, How do I go about showing minor ticks as lines across the whole plot, as opposed to just little ticks at the side? I can get the major ticks to show by doing grid(True), but how do I get the same effect for minor ticks? Try grid(True, which='minor') Eric