[Matplotlib-users] Fwd: poor tick locator defaults in 2.0?

[Thomas Caswell]

Great to hear!

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From: Mike Kaufman <mckauf at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] poor tick locator defaults in 2.0?
To: Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com>, Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com
>


Freshening up my tree fixes things. Thanks guys.

M

On 6/28/16 2:28 PM, Thomas Caswell wrote:
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/6584 Is the PR that should
> ensure that there are always at least 2 ticks.
>
> If you have that commit in you tree, can you give us an example where it
> fails?
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:26 PM Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com
> <mailto:ben.v.root at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Yeah, we were experimenting with a modified ticker/autoscaling logic
>     and we aren't too happy with it either. How fresh is your v2.x
>     branch? I can't remember if we merged in some tweaks to the logic yet.
>
>     Ben Root
>
>     On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Mike Kaufman <mckauf at gmail.com
>     <mailto:mckauf at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         When I switched over to the 2.x branch, I found that for shorter
>         plots (like when you have a set of vertically stacked subplots),
>         I am seeing y-axes with only a single tick label. This is
>         without doing any explicit tick locating. In 1.5.x I didn't see
>         this.
>
>         This is bad as it makes the whole point of labeling the ticks
>         pointless because you can't get any sense of scale.
>
>         M
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