Re: [Matplotlib-users] problem with small y-axis scale

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"Steve" == Steve Schmerler <el...@gm...> writes:
> 
> 
>     Steve> I get strange "histogram-like" plots if the y-axes scale is
>     Steve> some orders of magnitude smaller than the x-axis (latest
>     Steve> svn version).
> 
> This appears to be a truncation error due to the formating string we
> use to represent floats in backend_ps.  Darren, should we prefer 1.3e
> instead of 1.3f, or perhaps 1.4e or 1.5e?

John, Darren,

I would suggest something like 1.5g, which will be less bulky for common 
cases than 1.5f.

Matlab ps files have all paths already transformed to paper coordinates 
but in very small units (thousandths of an inch?) so that they can be 
given as integers.

Eric