[Matplotlib-devel] String names for linestyles

[vincent.adrien at gmail.com]

Hi Isaac,

FWIW, a “long” time ago, I proposed
[#8048](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/8048), which was
actually inspired by the example that you cited. However, I did not
manage to pursue the work in order to get significant traction on that
very proposal (which is likely to be a tricky one, as it may induce many
corner-cases that I did not think of…). Unfortunately, I do not expect
to have time resuming on that proposal any time soon.

As Elan wrote, please feel free to contribute on this topic :).

Best,
Adrien

Le 24/11/2019 à 02:06, Elan Ernest a écrit :
> Linestyles are currently not coherently defined throughout the library.
> 
> See this issue: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/11797
> 
> Once they are, using more alias names is certainly possible. Currently,
> there is noone actively working on this, so please feel free to contribute.
> 
> 
> Am 24.11.2019 um 01:16 schrieb Isaac Gerg:
>> Is there any reason these string names for linestyles are not
>> inherently in matlotlib?
>>
>> https://matplotlib.org/3.1.0/gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/linestyles.html
>>
>> I have to pass the tuple to use the second table of linestyles.  Why
>> can't these strings be added to the native list?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Isaac
>>
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