On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Gökhan Sever <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is a good idea indeed. Especially, when one creates plots for
> presentations and papers. Usually, I make ticks, ticklabels, axes labels,
> line widths, marker sizes as large as possible (within reasonable limits)
> to make them more readable for presentation purposes. However, the same
> element sizes don't look very pretty when I create the same plots for paper
> or vice versa. The solution is either keep modify two rc files or adjust
> one rc file accordingly for each plotting style.
>
> Could the syntax be simplfied a bit? Say rather than using that with
> statement and the extra 4 spaces, can it be just a one simple liner like
> matplotlib.rcuse(mpl_paper.rc) or matplotlib.rcuse(mpl_presentation.rc)?
>
I believe that's what the `rc_file` function does in the
PR<https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/861/files>,
so both use cases are possible. I think it makes sense to allow both.
Cheers,
-Tony
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Paul Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I wanted to highlight Matthew Emmett's (memmett) PR in progress [1] that
>> brings the ability to switch between rcParams.
>>
>> Matthew's implementation started with just being able to read in and use
>> an rcParam file, and I suggested the idea of having a context manager,
>> that would allow you to do something like:
>>
>> with rc_context(fname):
>> plt.plot()
>> ...
>>
>> and have the rcParams restored outside of the context.
>>
>> I know there have been a few threads (can't find links now for some
>> reason) and in-person discussions in the past about having this kind of
>> ability in matplotlib, and having an idea of "styles", and Tony Yu
>> implemented a variant of this on top of matplotlib in mpltools [2], but
>> I wanted to ping the list here for other ideas and feelings about such
>> functionality (if anyone can find pointers to previous discussions, that
>> would be very welcome).
>>
>> 1. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/861
>> 2. https://github.com/tonysyu/mpltools
>>
>> best,
>> --
>> Paul Ivanov
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