Re: [Matplotlib-users] Black and white mode

[Will F. <wi...@th...>]

On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:37:50 -0400, Tony Yu wrote:

>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:31 AM, William Furnass
>> <wi...@th...>wrote:
>>
>>> Did anything ever come of the MPL black and white mode mentioned in
>>> the following?  I rarely want to produce colour plots and having an
>>> inbuilt mechanism for cycling through line styles that can be
>>> activated with a keyword argument would be very handy.
>>>
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv
+LV9...@pu.../msg00367.html
> 
> Will: If you're just interested in grayscale plotting, here's a direct
> link to the example:
> 
> http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/auto_examples/style/
plot_grayscale.html
> 
> The discussion that you link to talks specifically about line styles. In
> the past there's been discussion of adding a linestyle cycle rc param,
> but I don't think there's been progress on that front.

Ben, Tony: thanks for the info. mpltools is new to me, very much like the 
idea of being able to enable stylesheets for specific plots.

+1 for linestyle cycling.  I've been impressed with Sigmaplot's default 
choices of line styles when producing B&W figures and would love it if 
such behaviour were easily accessible in MPL.

Cheers,

Will