Thanks Ben. Your solution for setting different fontsizes worked like a
charm!
For the other question, what I meant by padding was the distance of the
tick label from the axis. This is what I set with the following command:
matplotplib.pyplot.rc(('xtick.major','ytick.major'), pad=10)
so that the pad of the label from the axis is set to 10. Now what if I
want to set the pad of just one of the xtick lables to a different value?
Thanks,
Pawel
On 03/01/2012 01:17 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Pawel <pa...@gm...
> <mailto:pa...@gm...>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to set the size of only some tick labels? I have text
> tick labels (residue names). I'd like to reduce the font size of just
> two of the labels to make them fit better, but keep the size of the
> remaining labels the same.
>
>
> It isn't _impossible_, but mpl certainly won't make it easy for you.
> After creating your graph and tick labels, you would have to get back
> the tick labels as a list of Text objects using "get_xticklabels()".
> Then, you modify the font size of the appropriate element in that
> list. Perhaps something like this:
>
> xticks = ax.get_xticklabels()
> xticks[3].set_fontsize(xticks[3].get_fontsize() * 0.9)
>
> Note: Completely untested.
>
> And in a similar vein, is it possible to change the padding of
> just some
> tick labels? Again, I'd like to increase the padding of just two
> of the
> labels but keep the remaining the same.
>
>
> By "padding" are you referring to the spacing between the tick
> labels? That would have to be done by changing the tick locations
> themselves. By default, the ticks are equally spaced over the
> specified domain, and the labels for those ticks are placed so that
> the center lines up with the tick mark. Try using "get_xticks()" and
> "set_yticks()" and see what happens.
>
> I hope that helps!
> Ben Root
>
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