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
, optional) – The axes title.abc (
bool
orstr
, optional) – The “a-b-c” subplot label style. Must contain the charactera
orA
, for example'a.'
, or'A'
. IfTrue
then the default style of'a'
is used. Thea
orA
is replaced with the alphabetic character matching thenumber
. Ifnumber
is greater than 26, the characters loop around to a, …, z, aa, …, zz, aaa, …, zzz, etc.abcloc, titleloc (
str
, optional) – Strings indicating the location for the a-b-c label and main title. The following locations are valid (defaults arerc['abc.loc']
='left'
andrc['title.loc']
='center'
):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
, optional) – 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. Defaults arerc['abc.border']
=True
andrc['title.border']
=True
.abcbbox, titlebbox (
bool
, optional) – 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. Defaults arerc['abc.bbox']
=False
andrc['title.bbox']
=False
.abc_kw, title_kw (dict-like, optional) – Additional settings used to update the a-b-c label and title with
text.update()
.titlepad (
float
, optional) – The padding for the inner and outer titles and a-b-c labels in arbitrary units (default is points). Default isrc['title.pad']
=5.0
.titleabove (
bool
, optional) – Whether to try to put outer titles and a-b-c labels above panels, colorbars, or legends that are above the axes. Default isrc['title.above']
=True
.abctitlepad (
float
, optional) – The horizontal padding between the a-b-c label and title when they are in the same location. Default isrc['abc.titlepad']
=4.0
.ltitle, ctitle, rtitle, ultitle, uctitle, urtitle, lltitle, lctitle, lrtitle (
str
, optional) – Additional titles in specific positions. This works as an alternative to theax.format(title='Title', titleloc=loc)
workflow and permits adding more than one title-like label to a single axes.a, alpha, fc, facecolor, ec, edgecolor, lw, linewidth, ls, linestyle (optional) – Additional settings applied to the background patch, and their shorthands. Defaults are
rc['axes.alpha']
,rc['axes.facecolor']
,rc['axes.edgecolor']
,rc['axes.linewidth']
, and'-'
, respectively.
- Other Parameters
rowlabels, collabels, llabels, tlabels, rlabels, blabels – Aliases for
leftlabels
andtoplabels
, and forleftlabels
,toplabels
,rightlabels
, andbottomlabels
, 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
, optional) – The padding between the labels and the axes content in arbitrary units (default is points). Defaults arerc['leftlabel.pad']
,rc['toplabel.pad']
,rc['rightlabel.pad']
, andrc['bottomlabel.pad']
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 lefmost column of subplots and the right edge of the rightmost column of subplots, and automatically offset above figure titles. This is an improvement on matplotlib’s “super” title, which just centers the text between figure edges.suptitlepad (
float
, optional) – The padding between the super title and the axes content in arbitrary units (default is points). Default isrc['suptitle.pad']
.suptitle_kw (optional) – Additional settings used to update the super title with
text.update()
.rc_mode (
int
, optional) – The context mode passed tocontext
.rc_kw (dict-like, optional) – An alternative to passing extra keyword arguments. See below.
**kwargs – Passed to
proplot.config.Configurator.context
and used to update the axes-relevantrc
settings. For example,abcstyle='A.'
modifies therc['abc.style']
setting,titleloc='left'
modifies therc['title.loc']
setting,gridminor=True
modifies therc.gridminor
setting, andgridbelow=True
modifies therc['grid.below']
setting. Many of the keyword arguments documented above are actually applied by updating therc
settings then retrieving the updated settings.
Important
abc
,abcstyle
,abcloc
,titleloc
,titleabove
,titlepad
, andabctitlepad
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 toformat
too.