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Dear John,

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, John Hunter wrote:

> >>>>> "Arnd" == Arnd Baecker <arn...@we...> writes:
>
>     Arnd> So the question is, how can I turn off auto-scaling and just
>     Arnd> leave the plot window to the specified rectangle
>     Arnd> [-1.1,1.1]^2 ?
>
> No way in the current release.  But it is a good idea so I just added
> the "autoscale_on" property to the Axes, which you can use like
>
>   ax.set_autoscale_on(False)

Great, I just updated to 0.81  - it works fantastic!

> Thanks for the suggestion,

Well, I have to thank you for implementing this
(much faster than I could test this ;-).

Just one more question on this:
is there an even simpler way to activate
this than via
   fig = figure(figsize=(6,6))
   ax = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8])
   ax.set_autoscale_on(False)
?
For example, could one apply a general
  autoscale(False)
to the following plot(s)/subplots?

Many thanks,

Arnd

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Arnd Baecker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What is the best way to change the joinstyle of lines?
> I found in the users guide for 0.80 (April 2005)
> that there is something like
>   gc.set_joinstyle('miter')
> but I don't know how to get to the gc from the pylab interface.

I tried out various further variants
(E.g.
  from matplotlib import rcParams
  rcParams['lines.joinstyle'] = 'bevel'     # 'miter', 'round', 'bevel'
  from pylab import *
)
but without success.

So for the moment I just modified backend_bases.py
in line 399 in the __init__ routine of
GraphicsContextBase
  self._joinstyle = 'bevel'  # 'miter

Now the lines are as I need them for my particular application.

If there is a simpler way to achieve this, I would of course
be interested.
In general I think it would be nice to change the
joinstyle with a simple command, either globally
or even better on a line-by-line basis.
Is this possible already now in some way?

Best,

Arnd