xticklabels printed twice when using twinx

Hi all,

I have noticed a funny behaviour when using twinx to do two plots on the
same axes: the xticklabels are printed twice, once for each axes. This
shows up as slightly thicker labels than for a single axes. It is
particularly visible for ps or pdf output, but can be seen also in an
interactive session.

I can also see this in the figure shown for the two_scales.py example
(http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/_images/two_scales.png), where the
xticklabels are thicker than the yticklabels (though it is not so
apparent due to different colours. I therefore assume it is not just my
installation. (Adding

for tl in ax2.get_xticklabels():
    tl.set_fontsize(16)

just before the last plt.show() in two_scales.py makes it even more
visible)

Does anyone know of a reasonable work-around? Surely it is not the
intended behaviour?

Thanks for any help,
Christoffer Åberg

I’d also be interested in a workaround. I tried to remove the tick labels from the second axe, but it also removed the labels from the first axe.

Thanks,

David

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On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Christoffer Aberg <Christoffer.Aberg@…2483…> wrote:

Hi all,

I have noticed a funny behaviour when using twinx to do two plots on the

same axes: the xticklabels are printed twice, once for each axes. This

shows up as slightly thicker labels than for a single axes. It is

particularly visible for ps or pdf output, but can be seen also in an

interactive session.

I can also see this in the figure shown for the two_scales.py example

(http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/_images/two_scales.png), where the

xticklabels are thicker than the yticklabels (though it is not so

apparent due to different colours. I therefore assume it is not just my

installation. (Adding

for tl in ax2.get_xticklabels():

tl.set_fontsize(16)

just before the last plt.show() in two_scales.py makes it even more

visible)

Does anyone know of a reasonable work-around? Surely it is not the

intended behaviour?

Thanks for any help,

Christoffer Åberg


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David,

This seems to work for me:
(here ax2 is the second axis)

The only work around I can see is to add
for tl in ax2.get_xticklabels():
   tl.set_visible(False)

To prevent the ticklines being drawn twice I guess we should also do

for tline in ax2.get_xticklines():
   tline.set_visible(False)

HTH, George.

2009/2/27 David Huard <david.huard@...287...>:

···

I'd also be interested in a workaround. I tried to remove the tick labels
from the second axe, but it also removed the labels from the first axe.

Thanks,

David

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Christoffer Aberg > <Christoffer.Aberg@...2483...> wrote:

Hi all,

I have noticed a funny behaviour when using twinx to do two plots on the
same axes: the xticklabels are printed twice, once for each axes. This
shows up as slightly thicker labels than for a single axes. It is
particularly visible for ps or pdf output, but can be seen also in an
interactive session.

I can also see this in the figure shown for the two_scales.py example
(http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/_images/two_scales.png), where the
xticklabels are thicker than the yticklabels (though it is not so
apparent due to different colours. I therefore assume it is not just my
installation. (Adding

for tl in ax2.get_xticklabels():
tl.set_fontsize(16)

just before the last plt.show() in two_scales.py makes it even more
visible)

Does anyone know of a reasonable work-around? Surely it is not the
intended behaviour?

Thanks for any help,
Christoffer Åberg

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Christoffer Aberg wrote:

Hi all,

I have noticed a funny behaviour when using twinx to do two plots on the
same axes: the xticklabels are printed twice, once for each axes. This
shows up as slightly thicker labels than for a single axes. It is
particularly visible for ps or pdf output, but can be seen also in an
interactive session.

I can also see this in the figure shown for the two_scales.py example
(http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/_images/two_scales.png), where the
xticklabels are thicker than the yticklabels (though it is not so
apparent due to different colours. I therefore assume it is not just my
installation. (Adding

for tl in ax2.get_xticklabels():
    tl.set_fontsize(16)

just before the last plt.show() in two_scales.py makes it even more
visible)

Does anyone know of a reasonable work-around? Surely it is not the
intended behaviour?

It is now fixed in svn.

Eric

Hi Erick,

Is there any particular reason to introduce _xaxison and _yaxison,
instead of using set_visible(False) on the xaxis and yaxis? Just
wondering..

-JJ

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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Eric Firing <efiring@...202...> wrote:

Christoffer Aberg wrote:

Hi all,

I have noticed a funny behaviour when using twinx to do two plots on the
same axes: the xticklabels are printed twice, once for each axes. This
shows up as slightly thicker labels than for a single axes. It is
particularly visible for ps or pdf output, but can be seen also in an
interactive session.

I can also see this in the figure shown for the two_scales.py example
(http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/_images/two_scales.png), where the
xticklabels are thicker than the yticklabels (though it is not so
apparent due to different colours. I therefore assume it is not just my
installation. (Adding

for tl in ax2.get_xticklabels():
tl.set_fontsize(16)

just before the last plt.show() in two_scales.py makes it even more
visible)

Does anyone know of a reasonable work-around? Surely it is not the
intended behaviour?

It is now fixed in svn.

Eric

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Jae-Joon Lee wrote:

Hi Erick,

Is there any particular reason to introduce _xaxison and _yaxison,
instead of using set_visible(False) on the xaxis and yaxis? Just
wondering..

Good catch--I just didn't think of it. That is a much better solution. I'll do it shortly.

Thank you.

Eric

···

-JJ

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Eric Firing <efiring@...202...> wrote:

Christoffer Aberg wrote:

Hi all,

I have noticed a funny behaviour when using twinx to do two plots on the
same axes: the xticklabels are printed twice, once for each axes. This
shows up as slightly thicker labels than for a single axes. It is
particularly visible for ps or pdf output, but can be seen also in an
interactive session.

I can also see this in the figure shown for the two_scales.py example
(http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/_images/two_scales.png), where the
xticklabels are thicker than the yticklabels (though it is not so
apparent due to different colours. I therefore assume it is not just my
installation. (Adding

for tl in ax2.get_xticklabels():
    tl.set_fontsize(16)

just before the last plt.show() in two_scales.py makes it even more
visible)

Does anyone know of a reasonable work-around? Surely it is not the
intended behaviour?

It is now fixed in svn.

Eric

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