Re: [Matplotlib-users] Refer to matplotlib sphinx plots

Unfortunately, at present you can't.  The figure referencing in Sphinx 
works because there is a hard-coded phase to match labels to figures 
(which doesn't know about plots).  I think the matplotlib plot directive 
needs to write such a phase at well (should be possible using Sphinx 
event hooks) but it doesn't do that at the moment.

Can you file a feature request so this doesn't get forgotten?

Mike

On 11/26/2009 02:56 PM, Jose Gomez-Dans wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm not sure this is entirely on-topic as it relates to the matplotlib 
> sphinx extension. I hope it's still acceptable!
>
> I am writing some documentation using sphinx, and I would  like to 
> refer plots that are rendered from an external python script. I can do 
> the plot and it gets imported fine just by issuing
>
> .. plot:: ../samples/MyPythonPlot.py
>
> I would like to have a cross reference to it and a caption. If I were 
> to select a normal figure, I could do this just by (see 
> <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/markup/inline.html#cross-referencing-arbitrary-locations>)
>
> .. _my-figure:
>
> ..  figure::  whatever
>
>     Figure caption
>    
> But how can I do this with a matplotlib plot rather than a png file?
>
> Thanks!
> J
>
>
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