Re: [Matplotlib-users] Setting the tick label font size

[Daniele N. <da...@gr...>]

On 29/10/2013 03:11, Ryan Nelson wrote:
> Daniele,
> 
> I noticed the same problem with the Qt backend. However, I was looking
> at the documentation on the AxesGrid webpage here:
> http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html
> And I see the following warning:
> 
> axes_grid and axisartist (but not axes_grid1) uses a custom Axes class
> (derived from the mpl’s original Axes class). As a side effect, some
> commands (mostly tick-related) do not work. Use axes_grid1 to avoid
> this, or see how things are different in axes_grid and axisartist (LINK
> needed)
> 
> Unfortunately, no link. But perhaps there is a way to avoid using the
> Axes class from axisartist in your use case. For example, could you
> import the Axes class as follows:
> 
> from matplotlib.axes import Axes
> 
> That seems to work with the Qt and PDF backends on Windows 7 (Anaconda
> Python).

Hello Ryan,

thanks for confirming the problem.  I've also seen that note, but I
thought "do not work" means that the methods raise an exception, not
that they arbitrarily ignore arguments :(

While the standard Axis class works for the cut-down example I posted,
it does not for what I'm trying to achieve (having a second x axis below
the main one).  I came up with that solution following the matplotlib
documentation:

http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html#axisartist-with-parasiteaxes

however I don't really understand why some of the contortions there are
necessary (they are not explained in the documentation).

Cheers,
Daniele