This kind of sounds like stack plots, but I am not quite sure.
Cheers!
Ben Root
On Jun 29, 2013 1:45 AM, "mdekauwe" <mdeka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am plotting overlapping bars in a bar chart. In some places one bar
> overlaps the other so I would like to draw a horizontal line to show where
> the underlying bar extends to. My plots are postscripts so I can't use
> alpha. The only way I could come up with involves me figuring out by trial
> and error where each bar starts, for example:
>
> bar_width = 0.068
> xmin_line = 0.198
> xmax_line = xmin_line+bar_width
> plt.axhline(y=data_biomass[2], xmin=xmin_line, xmax=xmax_line, linewidth=2,
> color="b")
>
> Is there a way I can work out where each bar starts and how wide it is? I
> tried ax.get_xticks, but these don't match with the above function which
> only seems to be a fraction of 0 - 1.
>
> thanks,
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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