Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting style

[Marin G. <mrn...@gm...>]

Le 04/03/2015 22:46, Yuxiang Wang a écrit :

> Hi Marin,
>
> +1 for the idea of specific papers. For example, all PLOS require the
> same figure format and I have my own config file. I'd be more than
> happy to dig into it and try my best to contribute.
>
> Shawn
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Marin GILLES <mrn...@gm...> wrote:
>> Le 04/03/2015 06:21, Tony Yu a écrit :
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...> wrote:
>>> I see seaborn has "paper, notebook, talk, and poster" options.
>>> http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn-dev/aesthetics.html
>>> Apperantly he scales each parameter to get modified views. This would be a
>>> good addition for any of the styles available in matplotlib.
>> A similar pattern with `matplotlib.style` would use chained stylesheets. The
>> idea would be to make stylesheets either aesthetics focused or layout
>> focused. By aesthetics, I mean things like colors and marker shape, and by
>> layout, I mean things like default figure size, figure padding, font size,
>> etc. Then you can easily have a style that defines the general aesthetics
>> and easily modify it for papers, talks, etc.
>>
>> Here's an example from `mpltools`, but the same syntax applies to the
>> `style` module in `matplotlib`:
>>
>> http://tonysyu.github.io/mpltools/auto_examples/style/plot_multiple_styles.html
>>
>> (PoF = Physics of Fluids journal; IIRC I think I have some personal
>> stylesheets that take the normal two-column figure layout and convert it to
>> a full-page layout.)
>>
>> -Tony
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Marin GILLES <mrn...@gm...> wrote:
>>>> Le 03/03/2015 18:15, Gökhan Sever a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Marin GILLES <mrn...@gm...>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Sure, I'll be careful about that.
>>>>> I'm going to go try and design some new interesting ones.
>>>>> Maybe adding some styles specific to some plot types could be useful.
>>>>> Also some styles specific for some applications (geoscience, biology)?
>>>>> If you have any other ideas, please let me know.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Marin GILLES
>>>> It would be good to have styles for "paper" and "presentation" modes. The
>>>> former would have smaller ticks, labels, linewidths, other axis elements
>>>> that goes into a journal publication, while the latter with much magnified
>>>> elements to be clearly visible on a screen from the back of a room.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed it would be a very good idea.
>>>> I've seen that already in the seaborn lib I guess.
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Gökhan
>>>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I started working on styles based on which support the figure is designed
>> for (as of now, I've got 'paper', 'notebook', 'talk', 'poster').
>>
>> For those, in a style point of view, I think only the text size should be
>> modified (got it done, just need to get the proper sizes for each style),
>> which is unlike the 'seaborn' way of doing it. Thing is, by doing so, we
>> don't mess with any style we could apply using Cascading styles.
>>
>> Also, I was thinking that I should set the export settings for each of those
>> styles, but also get an export style folder (with a few good parameters).
>> This would mean no more need to adjust dpi, file format, figure size...
>>
>> Finally, I could add a folder for specific papers, in which the figure
>> parameters would be tweaked so that we can directly be in a specific paper
>> format. I guess it would take into account both text size and export
>> parameters for each paper.
>>
>> Let me know what you think about it.
>>
>> Marin Gilles
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>
That would indeed would be nice, and get us started.
I created a repository <https://github.com/mrngilles/matplotlib-styles>, 
if anyone wants to contribute. Don’t hesitate to bring in some new ideas.

Marin Gilles

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