Re: [Matplotlib-users] tickmark font and placement question

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

>>>>> "Ryan" == Ryan Krauss <rya...@gm...> writes:

    Ryan> My love of large fonts is causing a problem.  If you look at
    Ryan> the attached figure, I typically have x and y tick marks
    Ryan> that nearly collide in the lower left hand corner of each
    Ryan> subplot.  I typically end up setting the yticks by hand, but
    Ryan> this isn't super convienent for each plot.  I am about to
    Ryan> right a function to drop the lowest ytick label, but is
    Ryan> there a better approach?

Increase the xtick.major.pad and/or ytick.major.pad rc settings by a
couple of points.

Alternatively, if you do want to drop the leftmost xtick label, for
instance, you can easily derive a custom formatter.  Here you are using
the LogFormatterMathtext

from matplotlib.ticker import LogFormatterMathtext

class MyFormatter(LogFormatterMathtext):
    def __call__(self, x, pos=None):
        if pos==0: return ''  # pos=0 is the first tick
        else: return LogFormatterMathtext(self, x, pos)

ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(MyFormatter())

Nice looking figure!
JDH