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Have your changes to axes.py, namely breakx and breaky, been accepted?  If
not, could you post your axes.py file.
Thanks in advance,
yuffa


klukas wrote:
> 
> I have implemented breakx and breaky methods for the Axes class and
> attached the diff for axes.py to this message.
> 
> You can test out the function with the following examples:
> ------------------
> import numpy as np
> import matplotlib as mpl
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> 
> # Broken y
> fig = plt.figure()
> main_axes = plt.axes()
> plt.title('Broken x-axis example')
> plt.xlabel('x-axis label')
> subaxes = main_axes.breaky([0., 1.9, 5.1, 6.9, 9.1, 12])
> for axes in subaxes:
>     axes.plot(np.linspace(0,12,13),np.linspace(0,12,13))
> plt.ylabel('y-axis label')
> plt.show()
> 
> ------------------
> import numpy as np
> import matplotlib as mpl
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> # Broken x
> fig = plt.figure()
> main_axes = plt.axes()
> plt.title('Broken x-axis example')
> plt.ylabel('y-axis label')
> subaxes = main_axes.breakx([0., 1.9, 5.1, 6.9, 9.1, 12])
> for axes in subaxes:
>     axes.plot(np.linspace(0,12,13),np.linspace(0,12,13))
> plt.xlabel('x-axis label')
> plt.show()
> ---------------------
> 
> I've included in the docstrings some of the TODO items, but this is
> pretty stable in its current form.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff
> 
> || Jeff Klukas, Research Assistant, Physics
> || University of Wisconsin -- Madison
> || jeff.klukas@gmail | jeffyklukas@aim | jeffklukas@skype
> || http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~jklukas/
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jeff Klukas  wrote:
>>> What would be great is if you could refactor the basic functionality
>>> into a matplotlib.Axes.breaky method (and possibly breakx but most
>>> people request a broken y axis), which would resize the "self" axes
>>> and return the broken compliment which could be plotted onto.  Then
>>> you could provide a thin pyplot wrapper much like pyplot.twinx, so
>>> that pyplot as well as API users could benefit.
>>
>> I can try to do this.  I think I would prefer, however, not to resize
>> the "self" axes and continue with my current approach of creating two
>> new axes within the original axes.  On the user end, I think it makes
>> more sense to set the title and ylabel of the main axes, rather than
>> setting them for the individual upper and lower axes.  More on that
>> below.
>>
>>>> The only real problems here is that you need to
>>>> explicitly plot things on both the upper and lower axes, and then I
>>>> haven't
>>>> figured out how to push out the y-axis label of the main axes object so
>>>> it
>>>> doesn't overlap with the tick labels of the upper and lower axes.  So,
>>>> I
>>>> instead moved the y-labels of the upper and lower axes so that they
>>>> appear
>>>> at the center of the axis, but this is problematic.  Any thoughts on
>>>> how to
>>>> do that part better?
>>>
>>> klukas, I'm afraid I don't understand your issue... Can you explain
>>> using it differently?
>>
>> In my approach, you end up with a main axes object that is invisible,
>> and then two visible axes objects (upper and lower) within the main
>> axes.  I would ideally like to have the y label display in the middle
>> of the main y-axis, independent of where the break lies.  If I place a
>> y label on the main axes (which has ticks or tick labels), though, it
>> appears right up against the axis line.  I'd like it to be placed
>> further to the left, clear of the tick labels that appear on the upper
>> and lower axes.  So, I'd like to be able to access whatever algorithm
>> is used to choose the offset of the axis label, and explicitly set the
>> offset of the ylabel for the main axes so that it clears the tick
>> labels.
>>
>> // Jeff
>>
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