eStyle

This module is to create a default plot style environment for scientific publications.

VERSION: 0.0.1

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ejcjason/eStyle.git
cd eStyle
python ./install.sh install

Usage

from eStyle import *

When it is imported, it imports numpy as np, matplotlib.pyplot as plt automatically and changes the plot style immediately.

The setting is :

plt.rc('font', family="Arial")
params = {
    'axes.labelsize': 14,
    'font.size': 12,
    'xtick.direction': 'in',
    'ytick.direction': 'in',
    'text.usetex': False,
    'mathtext.fontset': 'custom',
    'mathtext.rm': 'Arial',
    'mathtext.it': 'Arial:italic',
    'mathtext.bf': 'Arial:bold',
    'lines.linewidth': 1.5
}

and you can modify it as you like.

Legend size and label size

To set default size of legends and labels, add these lines to params in eStyle.py before installing this module.

'legend.fontsize': 12,
'xtick.labelsize': 12,
'ytick.labelsize': 12,

Number of minor ticks

setXminor(ax,nt)

setYminor(ax,nt)

setNminor(ax,nbx=5,nby=5)

nt: number of ticks, default = 5

Number of major ticks

setXmajor(ax,nb)

setYmajor(ax,nb)

setNmajor(ax,nbx=5,nby=5)

nb: number of tick bins, default = 5