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[Matplotlib-users] Couple of questions on plotting

[James L. <jwl...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to python and matplotlib and trying to make a graph with
an inset.

How do I control the size of the text in the legend, made using figlegend?

I've tried to do something like this:

leg =3D figlegend(lines,(r'$r_f =3D 1.5d$',r'$r_f =3D 2d$',r'$r_f =3D 4d$',
                       r'$r_f =3D 6d$'),(0.7,0.7))
legLbls =3D leg.get_texts()
set(legLbls,fontsize=3D24)

but that seems to have no effect.

Also, how do I change the frequency of the tick labeling?  I want to label
over other tick instead of every tick in the inset figure.  Right now it is
too busy.

So far, matplotlib looks great!  Thanks for all the hard work.

Thanks,
James

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James W. Landry
jwl...@gm...

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Couple of questions on plotting

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "James" == James Landry <jwl...@gm...> writes:

    James> Hi, I'm relatively new to python and matplotlib and trying
    James> to make a graph with an inset.

    James> How do I control the size of the text in the legend, made
    James> using figlegend?

    James> I've tried to do something like this:

    James> leg = figlegend(lines,(r'$r_f = 1.5d$',r'$r_f = 2d$',r'$r_f
    James> = 4d$', r'$r_f = 6d$'),(0.7,0.7)) legLbls = leg.get_texts()
    James> set(legLbls,fontsize=24)

    James> but that seems to have no effect.

Please post a complete example.

    James> Also, how do I change the frequency of the tick labeling?
    James> I want to label over other tick instead of every tick in
    James> the inset figure.  Right now it is too busy.

You can set the tick locations and labels with the xticks or yticks
commands.  For finer grained control, see the chapter in the users
guide of tick locating and formatting, and
http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib.ticker.html


    James> So far, matplotlib looks great!  Thanks for all the hard
    James> work.

Your welcome!

JDH