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timhoffm opened this issue Aug 21, 2018 · 5 comments
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Improve linestyle documentation #11908

timhoffm opened this issue Aug 21, 2018 · 5 comments
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We currently have

https://matplotlib.org/gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/line_styles_reference.html
https://matplotlib.org/gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/linestyles.html

which are partly redundant. Also one of them uses the (offset, on-off-dash-seq) but does not explain it.

This should be merged in to a single comprehensible file with a bit more explanation.

See also:
https://matplotlib.org/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.lines.Line2D.html#matplotlib.lines.Line2D.set_linestyle
(which itself is not in great shape)
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Is this fully addressed by #11909?

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timhoffm commented Aug 23, 2018 •
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No. #11909 just slightly simplifies the code of each of the examples.

I'm proposing here to join the two examples and add a bit of explanatory text.

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In #11797 I compared the different ways to set linestyle and there seem to be a couple of inconsistencies and missing options. So getting clear about which option/syntax can be used where would also help (re)writing the examples.

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thoo commented Oct 17, 2018

I am a new comer and would like to work on this. Would this be a good place to start? Thanks.

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Yes, particularly "Writing examples and tutorials".

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