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

[Ryan K. <rya...@gm...>]

The new formatter works pretty well.  One change though, the last line
should be:

else: return LogFormatterMathtext.__call__(self, x, pos)

Thanks,

John


On 4/13/06, John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> wrote:
> >>>>> "Ryan" =3D=3D 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=3DNone):
>         if pos=3D=3D0: return ''  # pos=3D0 is the first tick
>         else: return LogFormatterMathtext(self, x, pos)
>
> ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(MyFormatter())
>
> Nice looking figure!
> JDH
>