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Dear All,
I've figured out that I can use LinearLocator and set ylim manually to 
fix the number of ticks. But I still don't know to set the display 
precision of the scientific notation. Currently I can only work around 
this by choosing proper limits and number of ticks manually. Is there 
anyway to fore the display precision (i.e, "3.33x10^-6" instead of 
"3.33333333333 x10^-6") ?
Thanks very much!
Sincerely yours
Xing
On 05/05/2012 01:13 AM, stecue wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm plotting figures for a series of data set and I want to keep the 
> looking consistent with each other. Currently I'm using MaxNLocator 
> and ScalarFormatter but still,
>
> 1. Is there a way to limit the minimum number of ticks for 
> MaxNLocator? Currently, if I set nbins=5, the number of ticks varies 
> from 2 to 5. The variation is too large for me. I tried FixedLocator 
> but then I lost the ability to set "ylim" (or "xlim") automatically.
>
> 2. About the scientific notation of ScalarFormatter, can I fix the 
> number of decimal places? Currently, the notation will be "2x10^-5" in 
> some figures, while "2.50x10^-5" in other figures. I need all tick 
> labels to have the same number of decimal places.
>
> I've searched the online documents for hours but cann't find the 
> answer... any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>

The example here:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/dash_control.html?highlight=set_dashes
will probably help.
Jon
> See the API document of plot(): 
> 
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot 
> 
> You may try different combinations of linestyle and marker to achieve
> your desired style. 
> 
> ~Pengkui 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Chao YUE <cha...@gm...>
> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Is it possible to have a customized linestyle for line plots? 
> such as I want '--.--.--.' or '-*-*-*' or others.
> 
> I read the documentation part of set_drawstyle and a post
> here:
> http://old.nabble.com/Changing-the-Dash-Spacing--td33381003.html#a33381003
> 
> but still not clear. Could anyone give a very small example? 
> 
> thanks et cheers,
> 
> Chao