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Create Date Formatter/Locator Reference #17283
Description
Examples of using the date formatters and locators is currently scattered haphazardly across the docs:
- Dates documentation
- Concise Date Formatter
- Date tick labels
- Date Demo RRule
- Date Index Formatter
- Date Demo Convert
There currently isn't a good reference doc for the date formatters and locators. It would be useful to have one example that's structurally/stylistically a combination of:
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arunavkonwar commentedon May 1, 2020
Hi, I am new here. Can I take this issue up and work on it? Thanks :)
story645 commentedon May 1, 2020
Go for it, any issue without an attached PR is up for grabs.
arunavkonwar commentedon May 6, 2020
@story645 Hi, I am running to errors trying to build the documentation in html format. I
cded intodoc/directory and ranmake htmlbut being running into the following errors:Makefile:30: recipe for target 'html' failedmake: *** [html] Error 2`
any guidance on how to properly build the docs would be really helpful. thanks :)
story645 commentedon May 6, 2020
Hi, awesome that you're working on this but please direct troubleshooting questions to discourse.matplotlib.org and please provide more details like the current version of matplotlib which you are running and the output of
make html --verbosearunavkonwar commentedon May 15, 2020
hi @story645 , I am working on consolidating the examples you mentioned into one single page. I was wondering where should this page be placed in the overall directory?
I realize that the docs are currently broadly placed in
doc/,tutorials/, andexamples/directories.Thanks :)
story645 commentedon May 15, 2020
I'm leaning towards placing it in examples with the other formatter/locator examples.
StefRe commentedon Dec 2, 2021
@arunavkonwar Are you still working on this one?
if not - @story645 : is it something like this what you had in mind?
story645 commentedon Dec 2, 2021
@StefRe I really like it!
StefRe commentedon Dec 3, 2021
Along with the Date Index Formatter example you mentioned above, there's also a Custom tick formatter for time series example. Both examples illustrate the same thing - any objections if I consolidate them into one example placed in the Ticks section?
story645 commentedon Dec 3, 2021
I think that sounds fine.