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Thomas Caswell <tca...@gm...> writes:
> The user mailing list is still a going concern, the SF archives are just
> broken. They know (and the archive pages are _less_ broken than they used
> to be), but have not fixed it yet.
How about linking to the gmane.org archives?
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.general
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.devel
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Jouni K. Seppänen
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Thanks Thomas, that's great to know. I'll try using a newer version from
Github, and nice that the correction will gradually propagate to our users.
I'll ask my other questions on the user list; thanks for explaining!
Andy
On 26/10/14 16:18, Thomas Caswell wrote:
> Andy,
> 
> The issue of the axes frame corners _should_ be fixed in 1.4
> 
> The user mailing list is still a going concern, the SF archives are just
> broken. They know (and the archive pages are _less_ broken than they
> used to be), but have not fixed it yet.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Andy Buckley <an...@in...
> <mailto:an...@in...>> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question/request about improving a minor aspect of plot
> cosmetics, namely that axis spines seem to be rendered as 4 individual
> lines, meaning that the corners of the axes boundary do not match up
> with a neat corner but have a "stair" appearance. I've attached a
> screenshot from a zoomed PDF showing this effect, made with MPL 1.3.1
> from Ubuntu 14.04... so apologies if it's already fixed in the latest
> 1.4.x versions. This effect is also visible in PNG output, as just a
> couple of pixels in the corners that look "ragged". Would it be possible
> to tidy this up... or point me to where in the code this rendering is
> done, if it's something easy that I could maybe help with?
> 
> At the same time, I note in this zoom that the axis is showing tick
> marks at the very end(s) of the axis, where they overlap with the other
> axis/plot boundary line: is there an automatic way to elide tick marks
> in that redundant position?
> 
> Apologies if this isn't a good place for these queries/requests -- I had
> a look at the matplotlib-user and -announce list archives linked from
> the web page and they seem to have gone defunct in 2012, hence coming
> here. I am happy to do a bit of development to address little cosmetic
> tweaks like this, but am not yet familiar with MPL internals.
> 
> Thanks!
> Andy
> 
> PS. I also have a question about how to enable old-style figures in a
> font when using the TeX/PGF rendering backed, cf.
> \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo}, but I'll wait to see if this is an
> appropriate place for such questions before troubling you with that!
> 
> --
> Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
> Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN
> 
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