On Dec 4, 2007 4:02 PM, Ted Drain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks very nice! We'd love to have smarter layout systems as we > create a lot of plots for people (i.e. standard scripts that people > run instead of edit) and it's difficult to apply nice layouts that > work for every case that comes up. > > Can any of this be extended to make the auto-ticking algorithms smart > enough to not overlap tick mark text fields so much? We get this all > the time with date plots and it drives people nuts.
This drives me nuts too -- I almost always do autofmt_xdate. Perhaps we should just make rotated and right aligned the default for dates. Particularly in combination with Michael's autolayout, it should help the common use case. One problem that needs to be addressed is autofmt_xdate currently raises if you are not using a subplot geometry (because it turns off xticklabels for the upper subplots), but with a little thought we could make this more generic to work with general axes. This is hte main reason I have been holding off making it the default. One other problem to be aware of in this area: usetex does not support rotated text, so autofmt_xdate and related tricks will still not work until usetex supports arbitrary rotations. One thing that has been on my wish list is to expose the agg image functionality a little better to make things like rotating the ft2font pixel buffer easier. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
