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<h2>Goals for matplotlib</h2>

Here is a growing list, and status updates, of things that I think
need to be done to achieve a useful, publication quality 2D plotting
library.  If you have any suggestions, additions or comments, email me
@myemail@ or the <a href=http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=80706>
mailing list</a>.<p>

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	Goals
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	Status
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    <td>
	Allow arbitrary location, size and number of axes
    </td>

    <td @td_done@>

	Done. Use <a href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-subplot>subplot</a> for making
	regular grids of axes and <a href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-axes>axes</a>
	for custom placment

    </td>
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    <td>
	Allow full control of axes lines, tick lines, and grid lines.
        Eg, location, color, line style, line width, etc, should be
        under full control
    </td>

    <td @td_done@>

	Almost done.  You can specify the linewidth and color of the
	tick lines, axis lines and grid lines.  You now have full
	control of the line attributes for the axes lines.  
    </td>
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<tr> <td> Support arbitrary location, rotation and fonts for axis text
   </td> <td @td_partial@> Partially done.  This is backend dependent.
   The GD and PS backends support arbitrary rotations.  The GTK and WX
   backends still support only 'horizontal' and 'vertical'.  Full font
   support (font family, font angle, font weight, font size) is
   available for all backends; see <a href=fonts.html>fonts</a>.</td>

</tr>
    <td>
       Plot legends
    </td>

    <td @td_done@> Done, matlab compatible legend command.  See <a
	href=examples/legend_demo.py>legend_demo.py</a> and the <a
	href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-legend>legend</a> command.  </td>

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    <td>
      Allow high resolution printing to a variety of output formats
    </td>

    <td @td_done@>matplotlib supports multiple backend renders,
      including GTK, GD and postscript with arbitrary resolutions--
      see <a href="backends.html">output devices</a> </td> </tr>

<tr> <td> Allow interactive control of plot </td>

    <td @td_partial@> An improved interactive command line environment
        for the GTK backend is provided interactive2.py, which allows
        you to use matplotlib interactively from the prompt, though
        there are still some problems with this interpreter in the way
        it handles cutting and pasting of text directly into the
        interpreter.  Also, it would be nicer if there were a way to
        do this w/o forcing users to use a custom interpreter - note
        to self, look into gui_thread.  See also interactive.py.</td>
        </tr>

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    <td>
      Support a richer char set for labeling, eg greek letters, as
      well as sub and superscripts
    </td>

    <td @td_remaining@>
      No progress here yet.  It would be nice to support a large
      subset of LaTeX commands, as matlab does.
    </td>
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    <td>
      Support log scaling	
    </td>

    <td @td_done@> See <a
	href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-semilogx>semilogx</a>, <a
	href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-semilogy>semilogy</a>, and <a
	href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-loglog>loglog</a>, and demo <a
	href=examples/log_demo.py>log_demo.py</a> </td> </tr>


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    <td>
	Add more patch commands, like pcolor
    </td>

    <td @td_partial@> <a
	href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-pcolor>pcolor</a> added.  See <a
	href=screenshots.html#pcolor_demo>pcolor_demo</a> and <a
	href=screenshots.html#mri_with_eeg>mri_with_eeg</a> for
	screenshots and <a
	href=examples/pcolor_demo.py>pcolor_demo.py</a> for some
	example code.  On the list to do: contour.  </td> </tr>


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    <td>
	Add 3D plot commands
    </td>

    <td @td_remaining@>
	After all the above goals are met (around matplotlib 1.0),
	I'll add 3D plotting with a VTK backend.
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