[Matplotlib-users] Customizing an errorbar plot

2009-11-16 Thread Donovan Parks
Hello, I am hoping someone more familiar with matplotlib can tell me if it is possible to customize an errorbar plot such that each marker has a different colour. That is, I'd like to set the markerfacecolor property of each marker in the errorbar plot. Is this possible? I've been trying to

[Matplotlib-users] Log scale for horizontal bar chart (2 bugs)

2009-10-14 Thread Donovan Parks
Hello, I've encountered two bugs recently in matplotlib. I am hoping someone can tell me if these are known issues and if any workarounds have been proposed. The bug occurs for horizontal bar chart where the x-axis has a log scale: from pylab import * val = 3+10*rand(5) # the bar lengths

[Matplotlib-users] Width of axes tick labels

2009-10-06 Thread Donovan Parks
Hello, I'm new to matplotlib, but have made great progress in using it over the past few days (thanks in no small part to this list). However, I am stuck on trying to determine the width of a y tick label (either in inches or figure space). I know I can get 'Text instances' of the tick labels

[Matplotlib-users] Setting size of subplot

2009-10-05 Thread Donovan Parks
Hello, I am new to matplotlib and am having trouble understanding how to set the size of a subplot when a figure contains multiple subplots. In particular, I have been playing around with the scatter_hist.py demo at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/axes_grid/scatter_hist.html. A