CHANGELOG, api_changes.rst, whats_new.rst

rtrwalker · rtrwalker · commit eaec4bd37000 · 2014-04-06T11:17:11.000+10:00
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
@@ -15,9 +15,14 @@
 
 2014-03-13 Add parameter 'clockwise' to function pie, True by default.
 
-2014-27-02  Implemented separate horizontal/vertical axes padding to the
+2014-02-27 Implemented separate horizontal/vertical axes padding to the
            ImageGrid in the AxesGrid toolkit
 
+2014-02-27 Allowed markevery property of matplotlib.lines.Line2D to be, an int
+           numpy fancy index, slice object, or float.  The float behaviour
+           turns on markers at approximately equal display-coordinate-distances
+           along the line.
+
 2014-01-02 `triplot` now returns the artist it adds and support of line and
            marker kwargs has been improved. GBY
 
diff --git a/doc/api/api_changes.rst b/doc/api/api_changes.rst
@@ -153,6 +153,12 @@ original location:
 
 * Added clockwise parameter to control sectors direction in `axes.pie`
 
+* In `matplotlib.lines.Line2D` the `markevery` functionality has been extended.
+  Previously an integer start-index and stride-length could be specified using
+  either a two-element-list or a two-element-tuple.  Now this can only be done
+  using a two-element-tuple.  If a two-element-list is used then it will be
+  treated as numpy fancy indexing and only the two markers corresponding to the
+  given indexes will be shown.
 
 .. _changes_in_1_3:
 
diff --git a/doc/users/whats_new.rst b/doc/users/whats_new.rst
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ New plotting features
 Power-law normalization
 ```````````````````````
 Ben Gamari added a power-law normalization method,
-:class:`~matplotlib.colors.PowerNorm`. This class maps a range of 
+:class:`~matplotlib.colors.PowerNorm`. This class maps a range of
 values to the interval [0,1] with power-law scaling with the exponent
 provided by the constructor's `gamma` argument. Power law normalization
 can be useful for, e.g., emphasizing small populations in a histogram.
@@ -153,6 +153,15 @@ Larry Bradley fixed the :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.errorbar` method such
 that the upper and lower limits (*lolims*, *uplims*, *xlolims*,
 *xuplims*) now point in the correct direction.
 
+More `markevery` options to show only a subset of markers
+`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
+Rohan Walker extended the `markevery` property in
+:class:`~matplotlib.lines.Line2D`.  You can now specify a subset of markers to
+show with an int, slice object, numpy fancy indexing, or float. Using a float
+shows markers at approximately equal display-coordinate-distances along the
+line.
+
+
 Date handling
 -------------
 
