Axes.format¶

Axes.format()[source]¶

Modify the a-b-c label, axes title(s), and background patch, and call proplot.figure.Figure.format on the axes figure.

Parameters

title (str or sequence, optional) – The axes title. Can optionally be a sequence strings, in which case the title will be selected from the sequence according to number.
abc (bool or str or sequence, default: rc.abc = False) – The “a-b-c” subplot label style. Must contain the character a or A, for example 'a.', or 'A'. If True then the default style of 'a' is used. The a or A is replaced with the alphabetic character matching the number. If number is greater than 26, the characters loop around to a, …, z, aa, …, zz, aaa, …, zzz, etc. Can also be a sequence of strings, in which case the “a-b-c” label will simply be selected from the sequence according to number.

abcloc, titleloc (str, default: rc['abc.loc'] = 'left', rc['title.loc'] = 'center') – Strings indicating the location for the a-b-c label and main title. The following locations are valid:

Location	Valid keys
center above axes	`'center'`, `'c'`
left above axes	`'left'`, `'l'`
right above axes	`'right'`, `'r'`
lower center inside axes	`'lower center'`, `'lc'`
upper center inside axes	`'upper center'`, `'uc'`
upper right inside axes	`'upper right'`, `'ur'`
upper left inside axes	`'upper left'`, `'ul'`
lower left inside axes	`'lower left'`, `'ll'`
lower right inside axes	`'lower right'`, `'lr'`

abcborder, titleborder (bool, default: rc['abc.border'] = True and rc['title.border'] = True) – Whether to draw a white border around titles and a-b-c labels positioned inside the axes. This can help them stand out on top of artists plotted inside the axes.
abcbbox, titlebbox (bool, default: rc['abc.bbox'] = False and rc['title.bbox'] = False) – Whether to draw a white bbox around titles and a-b-c labels positioned inside the axes. This can help them stand out on top of artists plotted inside the axes.
abc_kw, title_kw (dict-like, optional) – Additional settings used to update the a-b-c label and title with text.update().
titlepad (float, default: rc['title.pad'] = 5.0) – The padding for the inner and outer titles and a-b-c labels. If float, units are points. If string, interpreted by units.
titleabove (bool, default: rc['title.above'] = True) – Whether to try to put outer titles and a-b-c labels above panels, colorbars, or legends that are above the axes.
abctitlepad (float, default: rc['abc.titlepad'] = 4.0) – The horizontal padding between a-b-c labels and titles in the same location. If float, units are points. If string, interpreted by units.
ltitle, ctitle, rtitle, ultitle, uctitle, urtitle, lltitle, lctitle, lrtitle (str or sequence, optional) – Shorthands for the below keywords.
lefttitle, centertitle, righttitle, upperlefttitle, uppercentertitle, upperrighttitle, lowerlefttitle, lowercentertitle, lowerrighttitle (str or sequence, optional) – Additional titles in specific positions (see title for details). This works as an alternative to the ax.format(title='Title', titleloc=loc) workflow and permits adding more than one title-like label for a single axes.
a, alpha, fc, facecolor, ec, edgecolor, lw, linewidth, ls, linestyle (default: rc['axes.alpha'] = None, rc['axes.facecolor'] = 'white', rc['axes.edgecolor'] = 'black', rc['axes.linewidth'] = 0.6, '-') – Additional settings applied to the background patch, and their shorthands. Their defaults values are the 'axes' properties.

Important

abc, abcloc, titleloc, titleabove, titlepad, and abctitlepad are actually configuration settings. We explicitly document these arguments here because it is common to change them for specific axes. But many other configuration settings can be passed to format too.

Other Parameters

rowlabels, collabels, llabels, tlabels, rlabels, blabels – Aliases for leftlabels and toplabels, and for leftlabels, toplabels, rightlabels, and bottomlabels, respectively.
leftlabels, toplabels, rightlabels, bottomlabels (sequence of str, optional) – Labels for the subplots lying along the left, top, right, and bottom edges of the figure. The length of each list must match the number of subplots along the corresponding edge.
leftlabelpad, toplabelpad, rightlabelpad, bottomlabelpad (float or unit-spec, default: rc['leftlabel.pad'] = 5.0, rc['toplabel.pad'] = 5.0, rc['rightlabel.pad'] = 5.0, rc['bottomlabel.pad'] = 5.0) – The padding between the labels and the axes content. If float, units are points. If string, interpreted by units.
leftlabels_kw, toplabels_kw, rightlabels_kw, bottomlabels_kw (dict-like, optional) – Additional settings used to update the labels with text.update().
figtitle – Alias for suptitle.
suptitle (str, optional) – The figure “super” title, centered between the left edge of the leftmost subplot and the right edge of the rightmost subplot.
suptitlepad (float, default: rc['suptitle.pad'] = 5.0) – The padding between the super title and the axes content. If float, units are points. If string, interpreted by units.
suptitle_kw (optional) – Additional settings used to update the super title with text.update().
includepanels (bool, default: False) – Whether to include panels when aligning figure “super titles” along the top of the subplot grid and when aligning the spanx x axis labels and spany y axis labels along the sides of the subplot grid.
rc_mode (int, optional) – The context mode passed to context.
rc_kw (dict-like, optional) – An alternative to passing extra keyword arguments. See below.
**kwargs – Keyword arguments that match the name of an rc setting are passed to proplot.config.Configurator.context and used to update the axes. If the setting name has “dots” you can simply omit the dots. For example, abc='A.' modifies the rc.abc setting, titleloc='left' modifies the rc['title.loc'] setting, gridminor=True modifies the rc.gridminor setting, and gridbelow=True modifies the rc['grid.below'] setting. Many of the keyword arguments documented above are internally applied by retrieving settings passed to context.