Re: [Matplotlib-users] On changing the default tick pad

I tend to agree -- but worry that such a global change may have 
unintended consequences.

I'm pretty tight on time at the moment, but one way to test this theory 
would be to run examples/test/backend_driver.py with the new settings.  
This will generate output for most of the examples.  Then using an image 
viewing tool like gthumb or something, go through all the examples and 
make sure things get better in all cases, and never worse.  Let us know 
about the worse ones to see if they have easy workarounds.

If they mostly look good, I think we should consider changing the 
default for new non-maintenance versions going forward.

Cheers,
Mike

Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On 3/21/2009 11:33 PM Gary Ruben apparently wrote:
>   
>> Whilst agreeing with Kaushik's sentiments on the greatness of 
>> matplotlib, I thought his example plot nicely illustrates a layout wart 
>> that I think is easily fixed by changing the default xtick.major.pad, 
>> xtick.minor.pad, ytick.major.pad and ytick.minor.pad values from 4 to 6.
>> As well as preventing the x- and y-axis labels running into each other 
>> in Kaushik's example, the most common case of a 2D plot with 0 lower 
>> bound on both the x- and y-axes [e.g. plot(rand(10))] looks better with 
>> the default font when pad=6.
>>     
>
> Yes indeed.
> I would like to see examples justifying the current default.
> Alan Isaac
> (another user)
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