Makie.jl: High Level interface to title, axis-labels

[heitorPB]

It should be easy to set the plot/scene title, x-label, y-label. z-label, etc.

in MatPlotlib:

ax.set_title("Bla")
ax.set_xlabel("ble")

In Plots.jl:

plot!(title = "The Title")
plot!(xlabel = "t (s)")

In Makie:

# how to set the title?
axis = scene[Axis]
axis[:names, :axisnames] = ("t (s)", "||<↓|Ψ(t)>||²")

The way I found to set a plot title in Makie is with a lot of code. The Plots.jl is very simple and convenient.

Is this in the roadmap somewhere?

[asinghvi17]

title(scene, "text") should do it

[mschauer]

Is there a similar interface for the axis labels, maybe like axis(scene, ...)?

[SimonDanisch]

If you hammer out the API, we can make it happen :)

[mschauer]

Deal.

[asinghvi17]

For Plots compatibility, we could define convenience constructs? Like xlabel, ylabel, ...

[asinghvi17]

Will tackle this soon (today or tomorrow).

[asinghvi17]

I've implemented the axis label and limit mutating functions, but (a) they don't take Observables and (b) they are a convenience layer, so we should strongly recommend you mutate the axis directly if you want to do anything more than simple on-the-fly plotting.

[mschauer]

Do you have a link for me?

[asinghvi17]

https://github.com/JuliaPlots/AbstractPlotting.jl/blob/master/src/shorthands.jl (currently undocumented)

[asinghvi17]

Resolved by JuliaPlots/AbstractPlotting.jl#283