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

[Malte M. <Mal...@cs...>]

Hi,

I have a related question.  How do I change the (font)size of the ticklabels, 
without having to step through them?
I have "ganged" plots and am scaling fonts by a factor depending on nrows and 
ncolumns. 
I also need this for the size of the legend "labels"

Cheers,
Malte

On Friday 14 April 2006 04:25, Ryan Krauss wrote:
> 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" == 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
>