From c9b98f4c9006bf0b569283839a678e29d245cf90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Lehmann?= Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:30:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] more details in section introduction git-svn-id: https://pyx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pyx/trunk/pyx@2782 069f4177-920e-0410-937b-c2a4a81bcd90 --- examples/axis/README | 24 +++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) rewrite examples/axis/README (96%) diff --git a/examples/axis/README b/examples/axis/README dissimilarity index 96% index a6d86155..a45b57d9 100644 --- a/examples/axis/README +++ b/examples/axis/README @@ -1,7 +1,17 @@ -Graph axes - -This section demonstrates some axes features of the graph system. For that we -draw axes along paths, although this ''might'' look a bit esoteric (especially -since we're using curved paths). But please be not distracted by that: all the -shown functionality is available to the quite boring case of straight axes as -they are typically used in graphs. +Graph axes + +This section demonstrates the axis subsystem of the graph module. The axes +delegate a lot of tasks to different components like ''painters'' (which +control how the baseline of the axis, the ticks and the axis title is drawn), +''texters'' (which create the label strings written on the ticks), ''parters'' +(short for partionioners, which take care of determining appropriate tick +positions along the axis, and ''raters'' (which adjust the number of ticks to +match the available size). + +In the present section, we will explain various basic aspects of these +components. Most of the time, the examples will not show a complete graph but +just a single axis. In that case, we will take an axis created along an +arbitrary path, partially in order to demonstrate the flexibility of PyX's axis +system but also too increase the coolness factor. Of course, in a real-world +example, you will use the shown features mostly for simple, boring, straight +axes. -- 2.11.4.GIT