2008/11/16 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:01 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >>>> >>> >>> Is there any code in matplotlib for actually drawing x and y axis? >>> I mean, since you're saying their code is way better than yours >>> for doing that, maybe you can confirm they actually have code >>> for doing that? :-) >>> >> >> Matplotlib is geared around MATLAB style plotting so >> the axes are around the outside of the plot. I've never >> found a way to have the ticks along axes in the middle of the plot. >> None of the gallery examples do that. However, pyx can do what you're >> looking for. Personally, I prefer the MATLAB style for most plots since >> it keeps the numbers from being in the way of the plot. For the other >> times, I use pyx. Plus, it has nice LaTeX support. >> >> So, one possibility is to have a small wrapper around the plotting >> with a choice of drivers, pyx vs. matplotlib and choosing to have >> numbering through the plot forces the pyx driver. Thoughts? > > Sage can't depend on pyx, because pyx requires latex. So that > doesn't seem to be an option. Also, some of Sage's 2d plotting > already depends quite heavily on matplotlib, e.g., contour plots. > > Possibly we could copy the code out of pyx for drawing axis > and tick marks, if it is good. Otherwise, we can just improve > matplotlib so it can draw x,y-axis in addition to frames. But > we can't just delete that code (axes.py) from Sage until there > is something to take its place. > > William
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