Re: [matplotlib-devel] Alternative way of specifying plot layout

[Nicolas P. R. <Nic...@in...>]

Yes, a MEP makes sense to discuss the proposal.
What's the procedure to open a MEP (i.e. where) ?

Nicolas


> On 18 Mar 2015, at 18:44, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> 
> Also, perhaps it makes sense to make this a MEP to finalize and document the spec?
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> That is neat. I would be sure to put in some "..seealso::" lines in places like plt.subplots and GridSpec and such.
> 
> A thought... could this perhaps be extended somehow to specify colorbars in the layout? I am not sure how I would do that, but if we could come up with a way to do it, *that* would make this a killer feature. But even without that, this is still pretty useful.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Caswell <tca...@gm...> wrote:
> Cool.  I think it make sense to put this in to `pyplot.py` next to `subplots`
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:14 PM Nicolas P. Rougier <Nic...@in...> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been experimenting with a simple idea for specifying plot layout in a rather intuitive way.
> The idea is simply to "draw" your layout using strings.
> 
> Examples:
> 
> layout = ["AB"]
> -> means two plots side by side with equal width
> 
> layout = ["AAAB"]
> -> means two plots side by side A being 3 times wider than B
> 
> layout = ["AB",
>           "CC"]
> -> means two plots (A & B) side by side and C below with full width
> 
> layout = ["AB",
>           "C "]
> -> means two plots (A & B) side by side and C below A (same width)
> 
> etc... (have a look at sources)
> 
> I guess you cannot express every layout but it might work for most common ones.
> 
> If you think this might a good addition I can try to make a PR but I'm not sure where to insert it.
> My idea would be to have a layout function such that you can write:
> 
> A,B,C = plt.layout(["AB", "CC"], border=0.01)
> A.plot(...)
> B.plot(...)
> C.plot(...)
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
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