maxplotlib documentation

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Tutorials:

• Tutorial 01 — Quick Start
  • Backend selection
  • 1 Minimal example
  • 2 Multiple lines with labels, colors, and linestyles
  • 3 Canvas-level shortcut API
  • 4 Configuring the subplot at creation time
  • 5 Saving a figure
  • Summary
• Tutorial 02 — Multiple Subplots
  • Backend selection
  • 1 1×2 layout — side-by-side subplots
  • 2 2×2 layout — grid of subplots
  • 3 squeeze=False — always get a 2-D list
  • 4 Manual layout — canvas.add_subplot(row, col)
  • 5 Accessing subplots after creation
  • 6 canvas.iter_subplots() — loop over all panels
  • 7 Canvas-level plot routing
  • Summary
• Tutorial 03 — Plot Types
  • Backend selection
  • 1 Line plot — ax.plot()
  • 2 Scatter plot — ax.scatter()
  • 3 Bar chart — ax.bar()
  • 4 Fill between — ax.fill_between()
  • 5 Error bars — ax.errorbar()
  • 6 Reference lines — axhline and axvline
  • 7 Segment lines — hlines and vlines
  • 8 Combining plot types
  • 9 Annotations — ax.annotate() and ax.text()
  • Summary
• Tutorial 04 – Styling
  • Backend selection
  • 1 · Colors
  • 2 · Linestyles
  • 3 · Markers
  • 4 · Linewidth and markersize
  • 5 · Alpha (transparency)
  • 6 · Combining styles – a publication-ready plot
  • Summary
• Tutorial 05 – Axes, Ticks, Scales, and Annotations
  • Backend selection
  • 1 · Labels and title
  • 2 · Axis limits
  • 3 · Custom ticks
  • 4 · Log scale
  • 5 · Grid
  • 6 · Legend
  • 7 · annotate
  • 8 · text
  • 9 · Aspect ratio
  • Summary
• Tutorial 06 – Layers
  • Backend selection
  • 1 · Assigning data to layers
  • 2 · Rendering specific layers
  • 3 · Saving layer-by-layer
  • 4 · Use case: progressively revealing a derivation
  • Summary
• Tutorial 08 – Plotly Backend
  • When to use Plotly vs matplotlib
  • Plotly backend feature table
  • Typical workflow
• Tutorial 09 - plotext Backend
  • What this tutorial covers
  • 1 · Figure lifecycle: plot(), build(), show(), and savefig()
  • 2 · Line plots
  • 3 · Scatter plots
  • 4 · Bar charts
  • 5 · Filled regions
  • 6 · Error bars and reference lines
  • 7 · Text and annotations
  • 8 · Limits, ticks, grid, and log scales
  • 9 · Layers
  • 10 · Multi-subplot canvases
  • 11 · Matrix-style imshow() output
  • 12 · Patches and arbitrary patch geometry
  • 13 · Captions, symlog scales, aspect, and colorbar notes
  • 14 · Saving terminal output to a file
  • 15 · A simple terminal animation
  • 16 · Current limitations
• TikzFigure Subplots Tutorial
  • Basic 1×2 Layout
  • 1×3 Layout: Multiple Functions
  • Important Notes