Re: [Matplotlib-users] xticklabels printed twice when using twinx

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Christoffer Aberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have noticed a funny behaviour when using twinx to do two plots on the
> same axes: the xticklabels are printed twice, once for each axes. This
> shows up as slightly thicker labels than for a single axes. It is
> particularly visible for ps or pdf output, but can be seen also in an
> interactive session.
> 
> I can also see this in the figure shown for the two_scales.py example
> (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/_images/two_scales.png), where the
> xticklabels are thicker than the yticklabels (though it is not so
> apparent due to different colours. I therefore assume it is not just my
> installation. (Adding
> 
> for tl in ax2.get_xticklabels():
>     tl.set_fontsize(16)
> 
> just before the last plt.show() in two_scales.py makes it even more
> visible)
> 
> Does anyone know of a reasonable work-around? Surely it is not the
> intended behaviour?

It is now fixed in svn.

Eric