Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting style

Hi Marin,

+1 for the idea of specific papers. For example, all PLOS require the
same figure format and I have my own config file. I'd be more than
happy to dig into it and try my best to contribute.

Shawn

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Marin GILLES <mrn...@gm...> wrote:
> Le 04/03/2015 06:21, Tony Yu a écrit :
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> I see seaborn has "paper, notebook, talk, and poster" options.
>> http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn-dev/aesthetics.html
>> Apperantly he scales each parameter to get modified views. This would be a
>> good addition for any of the styles available in matplotlib.
>
>
> A similar pattern with `matplotlib.style` would use chained stylesheets. The
> idea would be to make stylesheets either aesthetics focused or layout
> focused. By aesthetics, I mean things like colors and marker shape, and by
> layout, I mean things like default figure size, figure padding, font size,
> etc. Then you can easily have a style that defines the general aesthetics
> and easily modify it for papers, talks, etc.
>
> Here's an example from `mpltools`, but the same syntax applies to the
> `style` module in `matplotlib`:
>
> http://tonysyu.github.io/mpltools/auto_examples/style/plot_multiple_styles.html
>
> (PoF = Physics of Fluids journal; IIRC I think I have some personal
> stylesheets that take the normal two-column figure layout and convert it to
> a full-page layout.)
>
> -Tony
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Marin GILLES <mrn...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 03/03/2015 18:15, Gökhan Sever a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Marin GILLES <mrn...@gm...>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sure, I'll be careful about that.
>>>> I'm going to go try and design some new interesting ones.
>>>> Maybe adding some styles specific to some plot types could be useful.
>>>> Also some styles specific for some applications (geoscience, biology)?
>>>> If you have any other ideas, please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Marin GILLES
>>>
>>>
>>> It would be good to have styles for "paper" and "presentation" modes. The
>>> former would have smaller ticks, labels, linewidths, other axis elements
>>> that goes into a journal publication, while the latter with much magnified
>>> elements to be clearly visible on a screen from the back of a room.
>>>
>>> Indeed it would be a very good idea.
>>> I've seen that already in the seaborn lib I guess.
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gökhan
>>
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>
> Hi,
>
> I started working on styles based on which support the figure is designed
> for (as of now, I've got 'paper', 'notebook', 'talk', 'poster').
>
> For those, in a style point of view, I think only the text size should be
> modified (got it done, just need to get the proper sizes for each style),
> which is unlike the 'seaborn' way of doing it. Thing is, by doing so, we
> don't mess with any style we could apply using Cascading styles.
>
> Also, I was thinking that I should set the export settings for each of those
> styles, but also get an export style folder (with a few good parameters).
> This would mean no more need to adjust dpi, file format, figure size...
>
> Finally, I could add a folder for specific papers, in which the figure
> parameters would be tweaked so that we can directly be in a specific paper
> format. I guess it would take into account both text size and export
> parameters for each paper.
>
> Let me know what you think about it.
>
> Marin Gilles
>
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