Have your changes to axes.py, namely breakx and breaky, been accepted? If not, could you post your axes.py file. Thanks in advance, yuffa klukas wrote: > > I have implemented breakx and breaky methods for the Axes class and > attached the diff for axes.py to this message. > > You can test out the function with the following examples: > ------------------ > import numpy as np > import matplotlib as mpl > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > > # Broken y > fig = plt.figure() > main_axes = plt.axes() > plt.title('Broken x-axis example') > plt.xlabel('x-axis label') > subaxes = main_axes.breaky([0., 1.9, 5.1, 6.9, 9.1, 12]) > for axes in subaxes: > axes.plot(np.linspace(0,12,13),np.linspace(0,12,13)) > plt.ylabel('y-axis label') > plt.show() > > ------------------ > import numpy as np > import matplotlib as mpl > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > # Broken x > fig = plt.figure() > main_axes = plt.axes() > plt.title('Broken x-axis example') > plt.ylabel('y-axis label') > subaxes = main_axes.breakx([0., 1.9, 5.1, 6.9, 9.1, 12]) > for axes in subaxes: > axes.plot(np.linspace(0,12,13),np.linspace(0,12,13)) > plt.xlabel('x-axis label') > plt.show() > --------------------- > > I've included in the docstrings some of the TODO items, but this is > pretty stable in its current form. > > Cheers, > Jeff > > || Jeff Klukas, Research Assistant, Physics > || University of Wisconsin -- Madison > || jeff.klukas@gmail | jeffyklukas@aim | jeffklukas@skype > || http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~jklukas/ > > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jeff Klukas wrote: >>> What would be great is if you could refactor the basic functionality >>> into a matplotlib.Axes.breaky method (and possibly breakx but most >>> people request a broken y axis), which would resize the "self" axes >>> and return the broken compliment which could be plotted onto. Then >>> you could provide a thin pyplot wrapper much like pyplot.twinx, so >>> that pyplot as well as API users could benefit. >> >> I can try to do this. I think I would prefer, however, not to resize >> the "self" axes and continue with my current approach of creating two >> new axes within the original axes. On the user end, I think it makes >> more sense to set the title and ylabel of the main axes, rather than >> setting them for the individual upper and lower axes. More on that >> below. >> >>>> The only real problems here is that you need to >>>> explicitly plot things on both the upper and lower axes, and then I >>>> haven't >>>> figured out how to push out the y-axis label of the main axes object so >>>> it >>>> doesn't overlap with the tick labels of the upper and lower axes. So, >>>> I >>>> instead moved the y-labels of the upper and lower axes so that they >>>> appear >>>> at the center of the axis, but this is problematic. Any thoughts on >>>> how to >>>> do that part better? >>> >>> klukas, I'm afraid I don't understand your issue... Can you explain >>> using it differently? >> >> In my approach, you end up with a main axes object that is invisible, >> and then two visible axes objects (upper and lower) within the main >> axes. I would ideally like to have the y label display in the middle >> of the main y-axis, independent of where the break lies. If I place a >> y label on the main axes (which has ticks or tick labels), though, it >> appears right up against the axis line. I'd like it to be placed >> further to the left, clear of the tick labels that appear on the upper >> and lower axes. So, I'd like to be able to access whatever algorithm >> is used to choose the offset of the axis label, and explicitly set the >> offset of the ylabel for the main axes so that it clears the tick >> labels. >> >> // Jeff >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Mat...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Proposal-for-Broken-Axes-tp27909750p32016821.html Sent from the matplotlib - devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.