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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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<tr >
  <th width=50%>
	Goals
  </th>
  <th width=50%>
	Status
  </th>
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<tr>
    <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>
</tr>

<tr>
    <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@> 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.  These can be
	customized in the <a href=.matplotlibrc>matplotlibrc</a> file.
	</td> </tr>

<tr> <td> Support arbitrary location, rotation and fonts for axis text
   </td> <td @td_partial@> Partially done.  This is backend dependent.
   The Agg, 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>

</tr>


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

    <td @td_done@>matplotlib supports multiple backend renders,
      including 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_done@> 
	With the tkagg backend, you can use matplotlib from an
	arbitrary python shell.  For other backends, see the <a
	href=interactive.html>interactive documentation</a>
	</td>
        </tr>

<tr>

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

    <td @td_partial@> A lot of progress here using the BaKoMa computer
      modern fonts and a TeX parser.  See <a
      href=screenshots.html#mathtext_demo>screenshot</a> and the <a
      href=matplotlib.mathtext.html>mathtext</a> documentation for
      backend and usage information - not available yet on all
      backends.  
  </td> </tr>

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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>

<tr>
    <td>
      Add more 2D plot commands
    </td>

    <td @td_remaining@> polar, pie</td> 
</tr>


<tr>
    <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>


    <td>
	Add image support
    </td>
    <td @td_partial@> 
      Support for images from arrays with <a href=matplotlib.matlab.html#-imshow>imshow</a>
   </td> </tr>


    <td>
	Add more efficient data handling for large scatter, pcolor, etc.
    </td>
    <td @td_remaining@> 
      Near the top of the list of things to do
   </td> </tr>


<tr>
    <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.
    </td>
</tr>


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