Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP26: Artist-level stylesheets

[Nelle V. <nel...@gm...>]

Hi James,


> Thanks for sharing the MEP - it's a really interesting idea, and the MEP
> itself looks like a good start.
>

It is indeed a very interesting idea, and a challenging one! Thanks for
tackling this problem.


> I'd strongly encourage you to stick with standard CSS syntax/behaviour
> instead of extending it. For example, the selector of "Axes.ylabel" would
> be more consistent as "Axes .ylabel" (or perhaps "Axis.y .label").
>

I actually think we need to focus on something easy to parse and easy to
use, not necessarily stick to the CSS syntax and behaviour. Back in the day
where I was doing web development and design integration, everyone seemed
to hate CSS, so I am a bit curious and dubious about this choice.

I think we need to be careful about the choice of the grammar and the API:
we know there are tools that are "doing it right", and tools that aren't
(matplotlib falls in the second category). Before trying our own recipe  I
suggest that we look elsewhere, on how other libraries are tackling this
problem, to see if we can reuse some of the good ideas and avoid errors. I
am thinking in particular about ggplot2 (which I have never used, but I
hear is very nice).

Thanks,
Nelle


>
> Do you have ideas on how one or more stylesheets would be "attached" to a
> particular figure, etc?
>
> Regards,
> Richard Hattersley
>
>
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