[yt-users] how to make a SlicePlot colorbar use mathtext?

[Michael Zingale]

yeah, I was doing that -- it doesn't have an effect.


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Chris Malone <chris.m.malone at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey Mike,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the issue or not, but after you apply your
> formatter to the colorbar, you need to call cbar.update_ticks() for them to
> actually change.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Michael Zingale <
> michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how to make a SlicePlot colorbar from yt use mathtext in
>> the tick labels?  I am doing the following in a loop over x, y, z planes:
>>
>>
>>         p = yt.SlicePlot(ds, d, var, center=(center[0], center[1],
>> center[2]),
>>                          origin="native", fontsize=10)
>>         p.set_log(var, log)
>>
>>         plot = p.plots[var]
>>         plot.figure = fig
>>         plot.axes = grid[i].axes
>>         plot.cax = grid.cbar_axes[i]
>>
>> I can get at the colorbar object via cb = plot.cb, but I can't seem to
>> turn on mathtext.  I can modify the axes to use my formatter so they look
>> pretty, but I've tried to set a colorbar formatter with no success.
>>
>> Here's my image:
>>
>> http://bender.astro.sunysb.edu/random/test.png
>>
>> Notice that the offset text for the colorbar is "1.e6" instead of in
>> latex (I still have to remove the offset text for the two rightmost y-axes
>> later, but I know how to do that).
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> --
>> Michael Zingale
>> Associate Professor
>>
>> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy • Stony Brook University • Stony Brook, NY
>> 11794-3800
>>  *phone*:  631-632-8225
>> *e-mail*: Michael.Zingale at stonybrook.edu
>> *web*: http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/mzingale
>>
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Michael Zingale
Associate Professor

Dept. of Physics & Astronomy • Stony Brook University • Stony Brook, NY
11794-3800
*phone*:  631-632-8225
*e-mail*: Michael.Zingale at stonybrook.edu
*web*: http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/mzingale
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