Thread: [Matplotlib-users] Rotated text for selected subplots

Hi,

I'm pretty new to Matplotlib and I'm really impressed about the
possibilities !!!
GREAT WORK !!!

I have a figure with 3 subplots like this.

*-------*    *------------------------------*
|          |     |                                          |
|    A    |     |                                          |
|          |     |                                          |
*-------*    |                                          |
                 |                     C                     |
*-------*    |                                          |
|          |     |                                          |
|    B    |     |                                          |
|          |     |                                          |
*-------*    *------------------------------*

I want to have the text on the x-axes rotated, but only for subplot A and B
The text for subplot C should remain unrotated.

Is that is possible?

Best regards,
Thorsten
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On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:23 AM, thowa <tho...@fo...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty new to Matplotlib and I'm really impressed about the
> possibilities !!!
> GREAT WORK !!!
>
> I have a figure with 3 subplots like this.
>
> *-------*    *------------------------------*
> |          |     |                                          |
> |    A    |     |                                          |
> |          |     |                                          |
> *-------*    |                                          |
>                 |                     C                     |
> *-------*    |                                          |
> |          |     |                                          |
> |    B    |     |                                          |
> |          |     |                                          |
> *-------*    *------------------------------*
>
> I want to have the text on the x-axes rotated, but only for subplot A and B
> The text for subplot C should remain unrotated.

All of the text commands "text", "xlabel", "ylabel", "title" take a
rotation keyword argument, so you can pass that in and set the angle
you want.  With an existing text instance, you can call the
set_rotation method.

Here is a demo that shows some of the rotation modes

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/alignment_test.html

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/demo_text_rotation_mode.html

JDH

John Hunter-4 wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:23 AM, thowa <tho...@fo...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm pretty new to Matplotlib and I'm really impressed about the
>> possibilities !!!
>> GREAT WORK !!!
>>
>> I have a figure with 3 subplots like this.
>>
>> *-------*    *------------------------------*
>> |          |     |                                          |
>> |    A    |     |                                          |
>> |          |     |                                          |
>> *-------*    |                                          |
>>                 |                     C                     |
>> *-------*    |                                          |
>> |          |     |                                          |
>> |    B    |     |                                          |
>> |          |     |                                          |
>> *-------*    *------------------------------*
>>
>> I want to have the text on the x-axes rotated, but only for subplot A and
>> B
>> The text for subplot C should remain unrotated.
> 
> All of the text commands "text", "xlabel", "ylabel", "title" take a
> rotation keyword argument, so you can pass that in and set the angle
> you want.  With an existing text instance, you can call the
> set_rotation method.
> 
> 

I'm afraid, I made myself not clear enough.
I want to rotate the numbers on the axis (similar to what autofmt_xdate() is
doing).
As I understand, autofmt_xdate() is changing the rotation of the numbers for
all sub-plots.
But I want to do it only for selected subplots.

Is that is possible?
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thowa wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I'm afraid, I made myself not clear enough.
> I want to rotate the numbers on the axis (similar to what autofmt_xdate()
> is doing).
> As I understand, autofmt_xdate() is changing the rotation of the numbers
> for all sub-plots.
> But I want to do it only for selected subplots.
> 
> Is that is possible?
> 

I have realized, that it is possible.
e.g. by using 

    plot.set_xticklabels(bins, rotation=45)



Thanks a lot!


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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:27 AM, thowa <tho...@fo...> wrote:
> I'm afraid, I made myself not clear enough.
> I want to rotate the numbers on the axis (similar to what autofmt_xdate() is
> doing).
> As I understand, autofmt_xdate() is changing the rotation of the numbers for
> all sub-plots.
> But I want to do it only for selected subplots.
>
> Is that is possible?

Yes, if ax is your subplot instance

for label in ax.get_xticklabels():
    label.set_rotation(45)
    label.set_horizontalalignment('right')

JDH