Re: [matplotlib-devel] future of mpl documentation

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Tony Yu <ts...@gm...> wrote:

> I must admit, I was a little worried when you suggested adding a big
> equation in the background, but I think you did a good job of making it look
> nice. Unfortunately, I get an error when I try to run the logo2 script:

I'm not wed to it, so just experiment.

> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_ticklabels'
> module body in logo2.py at line 23
> for label in ax.get_xticklabels() + ax.get_yticklabels():
> If I comment-out that for-block, I run into another error:
> NotImplementedError: xlim not meaningful for polar axes
> module body in logo2.py at line 43
> ax.set_xlim(-2*sigma, 2*sigma)
> I'm guessing the first error is a trunk vs. v0_91_maint issue? Is the second

You need to be on the trunk and I think I was a commit behind -- try it now.

We will probably want to set the various ticklabel and title sizes to
something really small using rc

import matplotlib
matplotlib.rcParams['xtick.labelsize']  = 6

so that we can tweak all these in one place at the top of the script.

JDH