Replace set_nice_params() function with mathplotlib custom style sheets?

[Samuel316]

Why don't we replace this function with a custom NuGrid Style sheet so all the plots are by default both consistent and publication ready (There could even be different sheets for posters, presentations, and different journals).

https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/introductory/customizing.html
https://matplotlib.org/api/style_api.html?highlight=style%20use#matplotlib.style.use

NuGridPy/nugridpy/mesa.py

Lines 155 to 172 in 629d9ef

	def set_nice_params():
	fsize=18
	params = {'axes.labelsize': fsize,
	# 'font.family': 'serif',
	'font.family': 'Times New Roman',
	'figure.facecolor': 'white',
	'text.fontsize': fsize,
	'legend.fontsize': fsize,
	'xtick.labelsize': fsize*0.8,
	'ytick.labelsize': fsize*0.8,
	'ytick.minor.pad': 8,
	'ytick.major.pad': 8,
	'xtick.minor.pad': 8,
	'xtick.major.pad': 8,
	'text.usetex': False,
	'lines.markeredgewidth': 0}
	pl.rcParams.update(params)

[fherwig]

Sam, that’s a great idea. Check with Adam if you can submit the necessary changes as a pull request at this time. You should also add maybe an example notebook to the wendi-examples repository and let people know about it. Falk. On Sep 8, 2019, at 10:46 PM, Samuel Lloyd <notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com>> wrote: Why don't we replace this function with a custom NuGrid Style sheet so all the plots are by default both consistent and publication ready (There could even be different sheets for posters, presentations, and different journals). https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/introductory/customizing.html<x-msg://11/url> https://matplotlib.org/api/style_api.html?highlight=style%20use#matplotlib.style.use<x-msg://11/url> https://github.com/NuGrid/NuGridPy/blob/629d9efca71680e42e66e2e9c54217608b9400d8/nugridpy/mesa.py#L155-L172 — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#74?email_source=notifications&email_token=ACQZMJTCZNASGX5ZSIT3PDTQIVQB7A5CNFSM4IUUZLDKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFUVEXG43VMWVGG33NNVSW45C7NFSM4HKBCS5A>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACQZMJSL2WXV5V5BF2V37TDQIVQB7ANCNFSM4IUUZLDA>.

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[Samuel316]

I've demonstrate that what I suggested can work in practice in branch issue74. If Adam thinks that a real implementation is possible then we begin to design some sort of default style and leave the implementation until after changes in the code settle down.

I think that what I've done only works if you use the -e option with pip during install, it's probably best to include something in the setup file like this? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35851201/how-can-i-share-matplotlib-style that adds the style to matplotlib.