William Stein wrote: > > That's one of those quick hackish design decisions that comes back to > haunt us over the years... can one just query matplotlib for a range > that contains all the elements in the plot?
Indeed! Some discussion: For tick labels and other things that extend beyond the axes, you can shrink the entire plot to fit inside of the figure. I wrote some code to do that, but it is not finished yet. I posted a short example to the matplotlib mailing list to include in their documentation (based on a more limited example already in their FAQ): http://www.nabble.com/Automatically-make-room-for-tick-labels-FAQ-entry-td25251691.html That code takes care of tick labels extending out, but could be expanded to look at all interesting graphical objects in a plot. This doesn't address the clipping at axes boundaries, though (see below). Another thing to deal with is not clipping the circles at the axes boundaries (plot a graph and do frame=True and axes_pad=0 in show to see what I mean, or try plotting a bunch of points with axes_pad=0). There is a bug in our current version of matplotlib (fixed in matplotlib svn) where the clipping parameter is ignored for scatter plots (which is what our vertices are), so we can't turn off clipping right now. See http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05486.html for the relevant discussion. I think you're mentioning something different, though---calculate a (tight) bounding box around the figures and resize the axes coordinates based on that. It is slightly nontrivial, since the scatter plot sizes are specified in points, so we don't know the data coordinate sizes of the vertices until we actually draw them (and thus have the dpi). However, there is a way to have a callback adjust things as we draw the figure (see paragraph (1) above for an example). Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
