.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/axis_and_tick/30.manual_tick_positions.py"
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.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_axis_and_tick_30.manual_tick_positions.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_axis_and_tick_30.manual_tick_positions.py:


=====================
Manual tick positions
=====================

Tick positions can be given manually in the same way as Matplotlib.

This feature may be useful e.g. when you do not want to show zero ticks to make
corner axis labels closer to the triangle.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 11-31



.. image-sg:: /gallery/axis_and_tick/images/sphx_glr_30.manual_tick_positions_001.svg
   :alt: 30.manual tick positions
   :srcset: /gallery/axis_and_tick/images/sphx_glr_30.manual_tick_positions_001.svg
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: Python

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    from mpltern.datasets import get_spiral


    ax = plt.subplot(projection='ternary')

    ax.plot(*get_spiral())

    ax.grid()

    ax.set_tlabel('Top')
    ax.set_llabel('Left')
    ax.set_rlabel('Right')

    # Specify tick positions manually.
    ax.taxis.set_ticks([0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0])
    ax.laxis.set_ticks([0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0])
    ax.raxis.set_ticks([0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0])

    plt.show()


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_axis_and_tick_30.manual_tick_positions.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: 30.manual_tick_positions.ipynb <30.manual_tick_positions.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: 30.manual_tick_positions.py <30.manual_tick_positions.py>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_