On Tuesday, July 10, 2012, Mike Kaufman wrote: > On 7/10/12 4:18 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Amy Dyer <ox...@gm...<javascript:;> > > <mailto:ox...@gm... <javascript:;>>> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > We're part of the summer 2012 batch at Hackerschool > > (www.hackerschool.com <http://www.hackerschool.com>) and we chose to > > spend this week contributing to matplotlib. We already submitted a > > handful of pull requests for bugs but we are looking for more to do. > > > > Are there any open issues or features you would like us to work on? > > > > - Amy, Vera, Beverly and Alan > > > > > > Awesome! > > > > Here is a quick list of all github issues tagged with "wishlist": > > > > > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues?labels=wishlist&page=1&state=open > > < > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues?labels=wishlist&page=1&state=open > > > > I probably should at some point submit this as a wishlist item, but I > thought I'd mention it here: > > The other day, I was looking to make a ylabel with text of two different > colors (I wanted to use the ylabel in a twinx rather than a legend to > show that two of three plots on an axis used a particular scale). See also: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9169052/partial-coloring-of-text-in-matplotlib > > Unfortunately, I don't believe this solution is going to work in a > xlabel or ylabel without finding the location of the ylabel and putting > these concatenated text objects there. > > It would be nice to have the label and title methods take a Text object > (and a list of text objects -- each of whom could supply a piece of > different colored text) in addition to a string. > > A list of text objects would be automagically concatenated together. How > to generalize alignment of multiple text objects? Haven't thought that > far yet. > > Either that or develop some additional color markup (and a parser) > inside a string. Admittedly a bigger project -- though probably a better > solution. > > M > > That is already a wishlist item. Feel free to comment on its discussion thread with your ideas. Ben Root