Re: [matplotlib-devel] Setting default labelpad

[Peter S. J. <pet...@gm...>]

Sure, here it is:

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/3096


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Paul Hobson <pmh...@gm...> wrote:

> Peter,
>
> Can you submit this as a pull request on github?
> http://matplotlib.org/devel/gitwash/git_development.html
>
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Peter St. John <pet...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> Finally made this into a patch to allow the dynamic updating of the
>> axes.labelpad parameter.
>> Hope this is in the appropriate format!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -- Peter
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Peter St. John <pet...@gm...
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Matplotlib-users,
>>>
>>> I found it was useful to be able to change the default 'Axis.labelpad'
>>> parameter, since this value didn't scale when changing the default figure
>>> size (in my opinion its easier to prepare figures for publication assuming
>>> they'll need to fit in a 1-column figure). I don't consider myself
>>> experienced enough to attempt to contribute a patch, but nevertheless here
>>> is the hack I used in case anyone has a similar problem:
>>>
>>> axis.py, line 652:
>>> original: self.labelpad = 5
>>> changed : self.labelpad = rcParams['axes.labelpad']
>>>
>>> Then, in rcsetup.py, I added the line (at 578):
>>>     'axes.labelpad' :        [5.0, validate_float],
>>>
>>> This lets you put
>>> axes.labelpad       : 3
>>> for instance, in your matplotlibrc to change the default label padding.
>>>
>>> Anyways, not sure if this is the right mailing list for this type of
>>> thing, but just thought I'd contribute it nevertheless.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> -- Peter
>>>
>>
>>
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