Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting style

[Olga B. <obo...@uc...>]

There's also the "plotsettings" package which makes it easy to switch
between styles required by different papers.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/plotsettings

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:29 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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>>
>>
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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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